Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/05/11 01:41, John Doty wrote:
> On May 17, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > It seems like too much redundancy to have two projects with similar uses
> > (which i wouldn't like), and i don't like forking either.
>
> But your vision is an integrated tool, while gEDA is a toolkit.
>
> > I'm still studying geda, but if i did some real work on it, it would end up
> > having an extra file format, extra guis, and a closer sch/pcb link.
>
> Please, no. These are tools that represent extremely incompatible design
> philosophies. They work well together only because the interface is clean and
> simple, and avoids the minefield of integration.

Most guis hide what they do. I believe in them showing the commands they
send internally as a script would (or atleast have the option to show that)
so the user can paste the commands into an external file if needed.


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