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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:11 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
>
>>  In my humble opinion, this damages the project in
>> the long run. It already has done so since about 15 years. We see the
>> result in the number of active developers of back-ends.
>
> That’s the “development is a good thing” ideology. But in reality, it’s only a good thing if it’s a good thing. In the early days of gEDA, a variety of people wrote a variety of back ends. Is there much need for more? There’s more scope for plugins that *modify* back end behavior, but we haven’t really created that culture. On my todo list.

No this is the "long term project maintenance requires a modest
developer base." Nothing in Kai-Martin's email said anything about
development just the availability of warm bodies who can contribute
something.

> That said, I approve of new tools with new scripting languages and paradigms.

+1

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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