Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

[Bob Paddock <graceindustries@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rick, I got line breaks.
.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Just thought I'd write some of this down and put it out there. I've
> spent some time recently thinking way into the future about the GUI /
> usability for an advanced PCB editing program.

Peter, while all of this sounds great, could we fix the collective
problems that we have now first?
To many of us PCB is used to ship products, preferably today.
The Creeping Feature Creacher is a powerful task master.

What we really need is good documentation for the Meta Data that
contains what a pcb really is.
Once MD is documented and abstracted then it should become easy to add
any kind of new GUI, Router, Scripting,
or just scrap the whole thing and start over.

> PCB design is a real hybrid of art, precision engineering and black
> magic.

It is only magic for those without documentation, or initiation.

> Scrap straight line rats in favour of using the topological auto-router?

Do different rat lines help ship products?  Not that I see. To me that
is the criteria for any feature.


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