Re: gEDA-user: General Layers questions

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 18, 2011, at 1:53 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
>> Why single out "via" and "footprint" when they are merely members of
>> an open-ended list of possible composite objects?
> 
> Because a tool that doesn't deal with real-world concepts in a
> user-friendly way is unusable.
> 

I completely agree. So that's why clean composition machinery is needed, because *your* needs don't correspond to anybody else's, when it comes down to details. Inflexible wired-in behavior makes a mess (as in gschem's slotting "feature", for example).

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




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