X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=IcKkMIxNoZhMwpaeuk6DkEYK+u+cfxybIfq01Pg8Vvc=; b=ZVfKINDnUzb1xk49zly3sAXyiELnliNxM7JRD7m/PQVn5dC2dt0f+UAAcwgFw3ccAq XKDr/2sB3HWeeimjkKUJFkddX4ZEVN8VMGNMmZl949xEApjELtaWB7N7H+vWcapmqmFh yOSXt18HvDnkXAQqyOJPiBfIRKQic+3VXXeo1n80I1otUlxqChfKcL5CuzGrzo3l4hS4 E5BGBNadfHomSfwomwO0V7+QXNlNmg0Eoep2f9r2A/X+25EeNESyQGhW/gk0+d04w/mL eGoo2mlqCzgGeDfXXqcsr8CaouTX0utCMlJLftneF2V0FVfF8bbG/2fJRrgEzMhHLs7S meMQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.188.101 with SMTP id fz5mr21000041wic.3.1444159158973; Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:19:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20151003210701 DOT de392b925f54dadb0a5fedd8 AT gmail DOT com> <1443903758 DOT 1873 DOT 13 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <56104A0A DOT 9020507 AT xs4all DOT nl> <1443909591 DOT 1873 DOT 18 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <1443975731 DOT 671 DOT 52 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <20151004191717 DOT bf8223417541a9306bfbd9ea AT gmail DOT com> <1443997480 DOT 2068 DOT 32 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <1444070851 DOT 1014 DOT 20 DOT camel AT ssalewski DOT de> <56133047 DOT 7030402 AT neurotica DOT com> <56133CC4 DOT 7000306 AT neurotica DOT com> <5613EBB6 DOT 6060609 AT ecosensory DOT com> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 00:19:18 +0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] GTK3, Glade interface designer (router, auto?) From: "Sergey Stepanov (no DOT such DOT process AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 10/05/2015 10:34 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote: > > Again, speaking as an user: it did improve a lot of things for me. After this summer I do have more than 5 features that I was > missing for years. Now they are there and I use them. I'm a bit lost in this discussion, could you please point out, where I can get these improvements? 2015-10-06 21:46 GMT+05:00 : > > > On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, John Griessen wrote: > >> On 10/05/2015 10:34 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote: >>> >>> Again, speaking as an user: it did improve a lot of things for me. After >>> this summer I do have more than 5 features that I was >>> missing for years. Now they are there and I use them. >> >> >> Hi Igor2, >> >> What is it that made you say it is unlikely your pcb-rnd code will get >> back into the main pcb? > > > For majority of the features: I think nobody will spend the time to do the > merge. > > A few features potentially won't get merged because they are not aligned > with the goals of the mainline. > >> >> Do you think your fork uses some changes to the code that are a total stop >> to the rest of us? > > > So far, I don't think so. The file format is almost 100% compatible and I > have good documentation on the few extra features that mainline pcb doesn't > understand in a .pcb save. > > For some users the lack of opengl support in pcb-rnd is a showstopper, tho. > >> I don't see pcb in its present state as much to hang onto before a >> rewrite. It might turn out that >> having pcb in a working state is good as a test vehicle for proving that a >> rewrite like SS's Peted >> is doing all the myriad details needed to still complete a pc board. And >> then once the testing is >> proved, stop adding to pcb and add to peted instead. All the backward >> compatibility needed can be >> handled by translators if the old PCB still works for old designs. > > > I thought peted was a gschem alternative, doing schematics, not PCBs, but I > might be wrong. > > Regards, > > Igor2