Re: gEDA-user: On the nitty-gritty of user-experienced problems

[Mario Klebsch <mario@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi!

Am 14.01.2005 um 22:45 schrieb Karel Kulhavy:
> OK, then write "For running gEDA, you need RH9, SuSE9, FC1 or FC2"
> and I'll stop complaining and move on to Sodipodi to draw my
> schematics :)

But yout statement is not true, and everybody with sufficient UNIX 
knowledge knows that, ven if that person does not know what gEDA might 
be.

However you might write:

gEDA was developed and tested on RH9, SuSE9, FC1 or FC2, so if you want 
to absolutely miminize the risk of problems caused by distribution 
incompatibilities, you might prefer to chose one of them.

And of course, you also must mention the list of installed packages 
(including their version) and all other adjustments done on the the 
development and test systems as well.

> I could also instead of playing with transistor, put one ML6652 into
> Ronja, and on complaints from users "minimum quantity of ML6652 costs
> so much it ruins me" respond "that's your problem. Reality is a messy
> thing and this is a common strategy in the commercial world."

Reality is, that you must support more than just vour specific variants 
of linux. I (and probably lots of other users, too) am not willing to 
change my OS to one of your four vavourite supported ones, just to let 
gEDA being able to produce 'better' documentation for dump users.

> Be glad I don't complain about gEDA not running on svgalib, OS/2 
> pmshell
> and framebuffer, and complain just about GTK+ ;-)

This thing started on PCB. When you oppose gtk, you suddenly face 
gschem & co. You entire argumentation agains gtk targets gschem much 
more than pcb.

I must admint, I really canot see any problem in two ore more closely 
related programs, which are used in conjunction, having a common set of 
requirements.

73, Mario
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