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

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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