Re: gEDA-user: Symbol analog/npn-2.sym wrong

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I should mention that for both comercial tools and geda I tend to build
my own symbol and foot print libaries.

Steve Meier wrote:
> Stuart Brorson wrote:
>   
>> If you accept this organic vision of what gEDA is about, then you can
>> do a lot of powerful things with the software, and you will be happy!
>> If you want a carefully administered software suite with
>> pre-established symbols and footprints all meeting exacting standards,
>> then you may be disappointed.
>>   
>>     
>
> Cutting this snipet out is taking what Stuart is talking about
> completely out of context. Which I have now just done.
>
> But there is an important point hidden in this snipet. And that is that
> for any cad tool there is a risk that the symbols have mistakes or
> aren't perfect. With closed source eda tools and their distributed
> libraries you are trusting a group of people that you might have little
> to no direct communication with and whom might have alterior motives
> other then their user needs, while with geda you have a community
> support group that might not every symbol that you desire but at least
> is available to talk the issues. In both cases there is little warenty
> against bad files. In the long run my bet is that a community can grow
> "organically" a better library and library format then the commercial
> tools. But the jury is still out.
>
> Steve M.
>
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