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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Freerouting?
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On 05/18/2016 01:09 PM, M. J. Everitt (m DOT j DOT everitt AT iee DOT org) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>   Hey folks.  What is the current state of Freerouting with gEDA/PCB?
>> Are we able to interface to it at all, in any way?
>>
>>   (We discussed this at length about two years ago, and, predictably,
>> the discussion devolved into another argument that had little to do with
>> the subject at hand.)
>
> Can't beat a good bit of bike-shedding ... *eg*

  Exactly.  I spent hours googling, and I found that several people had
worked on DSN/Specctra interfaces, and, as was also very predictable,
they can be found in about six completely different and unrelated places
on the net.

  This is really quite ridiculous.

  I have been a daily gEDA/PCB user for fourteen years, in both personal
and professional contexts.  Over that time, the projects have become so
incoherent and incohesive (is that even a word?) that even I, having
used it every day for nearly a decade and a half, cannot figure out
what's going on.  It seems that there is no "one true" gEDA or PCB!

  Note well that I'm not sitting here complaining that nobody will step
up and do a ton of work to improve something that's free.  It'd just be
really nice if people would just stop creating these additional
repositories with patches and fixes and plugins and blah blah blah that
will (inexplicably!) never get merged into the main package, instead
there are half a dozen completely different packages, being worked on by
different people with different divergent feature sets, that all claim
to be gEDA or PCB.

  Is it really impossible for people to work TOGETHER on this project?

                -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA