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From: Markus Hitter <mah AT jump-ing DOT de>
Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs diversity, Was: Pin hole size)
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:51:31 +0200
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Am 26.10.2012 um 20:50 schrieb John Doty:

> On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
>
>> Am 26.10.2012 um 17:39 schrieb John Doty:
>>
>>> It seems to me that gschem and gnetlist have reached a state of  
>>> near perfection within their architectural limitations.
>>
>> Except their usage is confusing enough to make them a science on  
>> their own. If there weren't helpers like xgsch2pcb or the recent  
>> direct schematics import I couldn't encourage people to use gEDA.  
>> Competitors like Fritzing are so much easier and more intuitive to  
>> use.
>
> That's the usual "I don't want a toolkit, but an integrated tool"  
> complaint. But Fritzing can't do most of the things that gEDA can.

Fritzing doesn't even try to be as detailed as gEDA. But Fritzing  
gets all the newbies, so in the end, Fritzing wins. Simple maths.

And you simply fail to explain how an integrated tool or a set of  
tools with consistent behaviour stops you from using your set of  
scripts. You apparently take it as a given, which is without substance.


> They are separate, independent tools with separate, independent  
> histories, both predating modern GUI conventions. Why would you  
> expect consistency here?

Who exactly is interested in the history of a tool? I use it today  
and I couldn't care less by whom and how it was used five years ago.

Getting both tools' mouse behaviour consistent is a matter of an hour  
or two, it just has to be done. But every time such things are  
attempted, some script users come around the corner and say basically  
"we did it wrong for 20 years, so I insist to continue doing it  
wrong!". Not exactly wise.

> And a new editor would be fine. A broken kludge based on gschem  
> would not.

OK. I take you can't imagine how this "shallow tool" can be put into  
the 21st century.

I'm pretty sure modernising gschem step by step is actually the only  
way to go, because this genius angel with a modern editor in his  
pocket won't fall off the sky.


Markus

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