Re: gEDA-user: spNet v0.9.2 released

["John P. Doty" <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bill Gatliff wrote:
> John P. Doty wrote:
>   
>> The people who seem to appreciate your work don't seem to understand 
>> gEDA. They expect something like the "do everything poorly with one 
>> tool" approach that is so distressingly common in software these days. A 
>> kit of tools, each of which does one thing well, is alien. But that's 
>> gEDA, that's its strength.
>>   
>>     
>
> For the record, I just said I liked his documentation and website--- and
> pled ignorance on everything else.  :)
>
> Look, I'll first apologize for starting this whole thing by calling you
> names, John.  I intended it in jest, but obviously my email didn't make
> that clear enough.  Sorry.  It was inappropriate behavior from me, to
> say the least.
>   

No need to apologize: I've a pretty thick skin. I don't even recall what 
you said. It had nothing to do with my distress.

> I agree that one of gEDA's strengths is that each component does one
> thing, and does it very well.  That fact alone has made it much easier
> for me to get my head around the small parts of it that I need to get my
> relatively modest designs done.
>
> It looks like Anthony has re-invented a wheel, and that's difficult to
> accept.  But his motivation to contribute is no less commendable as a
> result, and I really do appreciate his effort--- and I suspect that you
> do too, John.  I know he would love to hear that.
>   

I appreciate his positive effort, indeed. But why must he falsely 
disparage what we already have?

gEDA is a miracle: a lean, flexible toolkit in an age of complex, 
inflexible bloatware.

> In the bigger picture, I'll note that the tutorials and FAQs I've seen
> for gEDA all focus on a pretty specific workflow, which is to turn a
> schematic into a circuit board layout.  There are obviously a zillion
> different ways that the tools would be useful, and I would really
> appreciate it if someone would write a few of them down!
>   

I'm working on a gnetlist back end tutorial. I think that the 
capabilities of gnetlist are underappreciated, and that specialized back 
ends could be very useful.

> I'm a Contributing Editor for Embedded Systems Design magazine.  If
> anyone wants to help me co-author a few short articles on using gEDA for
> things like circuit board layout, schematic capture, simulations, and
> whatever else it's good for, I'd be more than happy to give you ample
> credit and to assist in whatever capacity I can to see to it that the
> documents get published.  They should be good candidates for the Wiki, too!
>
> If we can get some word out, and commit to documenting some of the
> really cool ways people are solving problems with gEDA, then I think
> we'll all get along a _lot_ better.  We'll focus our efforts on the
> parts of gEDA that are truly lacking (and even identify them!).  And
> we'd call more attention to the project, too.
>
>
> <bluto>
>
> "Now who's with me?"
>
> </bluto>
>
>
> b.g.
>
>   


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



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