Re: gEDA-user: More strange ideas: Start PCB layout from symbols view

[msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Sokolov)]

John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> But are you talking about genuine, essential capabilities, or just  
> sugar? An example from the coding world is the ability to single step  
> through code you're debugging. That's pure sugar: you don't need it,  
> it is a monumental waste of time, and the coders who are addicted to  
> it are not productive.

Yes, total agreement here!

> Yet they swear it's essential...

Oh yeah, all the ridicule I get from cow-orkers on sw projects as "the
guy who doesn't believe in debuggers".

> On the other hand, the ability to come back to a project after a  
> couple of years, make a small change, and have "make" regenerate all  
> of the data products: schematics, netlists, documention, software  
> drivers, etc. is almost priceless.

Total agreement again!

> Hurray for gEDA!

Sorry, but I have to disagree with you here: gschem's assinine
requirement of having an X11 display to generate PostScript output from
the command line totally kills it.

MS


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