Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote:

> John Doty wrote:
>> It worries me that people are wiring their scenarios into the tools,
>> when gEDA's unique strength is its flexibility. This isn't limited to
>> gEDA: it seems to be a programming universal that people feel
>> obligated to turn simple, flexible toolkits into bloated, inflexible
>> "applications".
>>
>
> I agree with you in principle.  But it would be nice for gEDA to work
> "out of the box" for the most basic cases, so that new users don't  
> have
> to work very hard to see results.

I'm all in favor of this. But the right way to do that with a toolkit  
is usually to wrap the tools with high level scripts. Adding features  
to the tools themselves is the "cat -v" approach, the road to bloat  
and inflexibility.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd@xxxxxxxxx




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