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Subject: Re: [geda-user] FOSDEM
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 9:39 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 3, 2015, at 10:27 PM, Ouabache Designworks <z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com>
> wrote:
>
> If we could get all the eda teams currently supporting their own tool flows
> to contribute to a single open source solution then we would all be a lot
> better off.
>
>
> There isn’t a single solution that will satisfy everybody. Many users want
> an integrated tool, but that is never going to scale well to complex
> projects with a lot of top level automation. Does anybody really imagine
> that a single flow can efficiently cover projects from afternoon throwaways
> to complex boards for space flight to mixed-signal ASICs? geda-gaf in

If they both use PCB boards, there's no reason that those aspects of both
projects couldn't share a lot more code than they do now, and do it without
disturbing simulation etc. that others are doing.  I wouldn't have to be an
integrated tool.

I think there are really just four things that everyone does:

1.  Get or make schematic symbols.  Many times this is a box with pins
2.  Get or make footprints
3.  Hook symbols to footprints
4.  Save reusable, pre-layed-out subcircuits somehow

There's the light-versus-heavy symbol issue which involves genuinely different
approaches on steps 1-3, but probably both could be accommodated in one
widely shared solution.  Besides this there really isn't much variation in
the above so its sort of maddening that everyone gets to re-invent it.

Britton