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On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 05:18:17PM +0200, Stephan Böttcher wrote:
> "James Battat (jbattat AT wellesley DOT edu) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
> <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> writes:
> 
> > Dear gEDA folks,
> >
> > I’ve used gschem/pcb for several (modest) boards now, and love many
> > things about it.  I do not love what I perceive to be deep friction
> > and lack of cooperation among developers.
> >
> > It makes me wonder how long gschem/pcb will endure.  And therefore I
> > must decide if, as a user, I should invest any more effort to learning
> > the platform and building up custom footprint/schematic libraries,
> > etc, or instead transition now to another platform.
> >
> > This may be an unfair question to ask on this forum, but here goes:
> >
> > What do you see as drawbacks to KiCad (wrt gschem/pcb)?  I’m on the
> > fence about transitioning away from gschem/pcb.  Why should I stay?
> >
> > James
> 
> Same here, I am pondering the same, for the exact same reasons.
> 
> My colleagues use Eagle and Kicad.  Often they cannot do things that I
> ask them to do, because the tool has lots of builtin heuristics that
> prevent it.  gaf and pcb are transparent, general, orthogonal and
> sufficiently low level.  What they lack is discoverability, especially
> pcb.  Orthogonality could improve a bit, again, mostly pcb.
> 
> I don't know Eagle nor Kicad.  I'll probably try Kicad for the next
> project that is sufficiently disconnected from the previous ones to make
> it worth starting from scratch.  I may very well come back to work on
> geda to keep it working for me.
> 
> There is a patch I submitted a long time ago to gnetlist, implementing
> functionality that I depend on, but that was never looked at by anybody.
> This is very discouraging, when it comes to invest time for coding.
> 
> I am also discouraged by the requirement to use a lauchpad account,
> which I don't have, and do not want to have.

Wow, I go away for a couple of days and two long threads appeared while
I'm not looking!

This said, I'm also among the people who flatly refuse to open an
account on LaunchPad.

    Gabriel

> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Stephan