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Subject: Re: off-topic: daydreaming about modularization (was: Re: [geda-user] Buttons for automation (obligatory grab at our shared 3rd rail) Re: [geda-user] Antifork)
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On Aug 25, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 7:51 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 24, 2015, at 11:56 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
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>>> The drive is low too: even with the clumsy modelling John likes to keep bashing pcb for, it works surprisingly well in practice.
>> 
>> I think part of our problem is that if pcb makes sense to you, gschem does not, and vice-versa.
> 
> Looking at the sourcecode I agree 100%
> Looking at the UI I disagree 100%.

I wasn’t thinking UI or source code. What matters is the underlying abstractions. Gschem constructs schematics by composition of a few elementary kinds of objects with simple properties. Pcb constructs layouts by concatenation of complicated objects with odd properties that interact in complicated ways.

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