Re: gEDA-user: merge multi symbol components

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:22 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:00:01 -0400, John Doty wrote:
>
>> But the idea
>> that computers can actually automate your workflow has been lost  
>> in the
>> "personal computer" era. The strength of gEDA is that you *can*  
>> automate
>> it:
>
> You have praised this many times before. Ironically, one of the
> weaknesses of gEDA is a lack of scriptability.

Well, you have to *use* its scriptability, and not fight against it.  
Write little Scheme scripts. Transform information with AWK,  
exploiting the fully documented file formats. Lots of freedom here,  
but it only helps you if you use it. The scriptability comes from the  
fact that gEDA plays well with the the rest of the classic UNIX  
toolkit. Stubborn people may not want to go that way, but such people  
would be better served by a different kind of tool.

> Even pcb with all its
> actions is only half way there.

A specialized internal language is a poor way to get scriptability.

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




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