Re: gEDA-user: blue sky ideas - written down finally

["David C. Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Remember that some sugars are essential to a balanced diet  :-D
Just don't overdo it...

D

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> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Doty
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: blue sky ideas - written down finally
> 
> 
> On Dec 28, 2009, at 5:50 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> >
> > John,
> >
> > I wrote up a long email explaining how to map what you want to my 
> > idea, but decided you'd learn a lot more if I write this 
> one instead.
> >
> > My idea does exactly what you want.  I'll leave it to you 
> to read it 
> > again and figure out how.  You're smart - use your imagination.
> 
> If I put the most optimistic interpretation on the final 
> three paragraphs of of your "Component Databases" memo, I 
> might see it. The problem is that most of the memo is about 
> sugar, not nutrition or balance. This makes optimism rather 
> difficult. "GUI" and "plugin" (the sugar) are mentioned 11 
> times. The core engine of gEDA, gnetlist, isn't mentioned 
> once, but that, or perhaps some preprocessor
> (s) that feed it, is where the action is here.
> 
> And, of course, there's no mention of the fact that these 
> issues are pretty universal across all flows, even VLSI and 
> simulation. It's pure pcb-centrism, an attitude which always 
> rubs me the wrong way.  
> The solution can, and should, work for all flows, but that 
> requires commitment to the flexibility that made gEDA a good 
> front end for pcb in the first place.
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd@xxxxxxxxx
> 
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