Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17/05/11 23:43, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:35 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > I was expert at using high-end HP DCS/PCDS on unix boxes 20 years
> > ago before it got discontinued, and a few other cad systems since then.
> >
> > > > A very first task i would do is create a decent gui for drawing the
> > > > symbol and footprint in the schematic/pcb library, and make a decent
> > > > library browser.
> > >
> > > makes me not really confident.
> >
> > I've thought of all the implementation and usage problems for a *long* time.
> > I've been coding on lower level problems for quite a while too.
>
> Great -- the FOSS EDA world really needs some more smart and active
> people.

Instead of blindly reinventing the wheel, i always look in detail
at what currently exists. The more i figure out geda, maybe i could
do something with it. It's just that i have to do it at arms length
because i can't stand using it.


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