Re: gEDA-user: gEDA DLL hell

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:29:31PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > I already did a fix for gEDA PCB doc. It never got to the webpage.
> 
> I admit that the PCB docs needs lots of work.  I'm in the middle of
> doing a semi-major rewrite of the GUI layer for PCB, which may result
> in PCB being a lot easier to use and develop, perhaps a native Windows
> GUI will be possible too, which would lead to a sane Windows
> installer.
> 
> In addition to the long list of patches and bugs in sourceforge, I
> still have eight of your emails in my pcb folder, to be worked on when
> time permits.
> 
> Heck, it took me four YEARS to finish my furnace controller project.

That doesn't mean anything. I develop Ronja for 7 years and I wouldn't
call it finished.

> 
> > I can get the same effect by estimating the time of my coming death
> > and shooting my head off with a shotgun 1 hour before that. Without
> > the intellectual effort.
> 
> This sort of childish nonsense is not appropriate in this forum.

It's not a childish nonsense. It's a true statement. By improving PCB
documentation and not having it published one just wastes his limited
lifetime.

CL<