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> > In other words: gschem urgently needs a button "make a PCB from
> > this" and also a "simulate this" one.
> 
> Simulation is as simple as pushing a button? Which simulator? Where
> are models? Which notion of hierarchy are you using? Which
> schematics? How are your stimuli generated? How is output displayed?
> So many options. Putting this into gschem is too complicated. You’d
> need subsystems for script editing and something like make. Except
> that excellent tools for those jobs already exist. A toolkit should
> use them, not reinvent them badly.

John, your failing here is that you refuse to consider the option of a
toolkit that provides easy-to-use defaults.  You assume a toolkit must
always be used the hard way, and must not provide any convenience
features.  Please do not discourage others from trying to do
otherwise.