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On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 2:17 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 19, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> But that hasn’t been a problem.

Imagine a trend line over time for the data Kai-Martin was talking
about and it will become apparent.

>>
>>> 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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>
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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