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On Tue, 28 Jul 2015, Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

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>Interesting article from slashdot. Anyone want to compute our score?
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>http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html

Mostly good observation, but there are a few ... fails in the test:

"* Your source builds using something that isn't GNU Make [ +10 points of 
FAIL ]"

I don't think all open source software should depend on GNU Make. Rather 
the opposite: makefiles should be portable, especially if the project used 
configure scripts/programs to generate them.


* Your code tries to install into /opt or /usr/local [ +10 points of FAIL 
]

by FHS they are totally valid. I am not a big fan of /opt either, but it's 
still 100 times better than /your_company_name (have seen such systems 
with my own eyes!). A traditional policy is to install software from 
source to /usr/local by default and let the package manager of your 
system use /usr.


The == History == part is buggy too: the only way to come up with a proper 
open source software is to start it from scratch?


Aside of these few bugs, it's worth calculating the score for both pcb and 
gschem.

Regards,

Igor2

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