Re: gEDA-user: PCB+GL testing

[michalwd1979 <michalwd1979@xxxxx>]

> 
> Why do I consider your post harmful?
> 
> Starting with complaining about lost data is generally a bad idea. It
> make developers feel bad, and a random reader of this list may get the
> impression that data loss is a general problem of PCB. (It is not, the
> latest stable snapshot of PCB is really stable -- I had only two crashes
> in more than 500 hours of work.)
> 

If You or anybody considered this harmful, then I'm sorry - it was NOT my idea. I simply wrote what has happened, clearly stating that I'm using experimental version. 

> Did you use the experimental version of PCB for serious work for 3 hours
> without saving? I guess you have never used Word -- that users saves
> there thesis every 5 minutes and stores older copies for cases when
> opening the file there are many red crosses instead of pictures. I have
> really seen this some years ago.
> 

Well this is true. I haven't been using and M$ or commercial software for about 8-9 years. I get used to OOffice that can restore documents even when X server is killed. I get used to gschem that makes a lot of backups. I get used to svn, my PC with raid1 and weekly auto-backup on separate disk.

I've tried opengl pcb because I was curious how would look my board in 3d and it turns out that it works faster then "stable" version I used before. I've almost finished the board, but then I wanted to learn new options try teardrops ect. so I started making it "pretty". I did not realized that I've spend so much time fixing small mistakes, moving components to grid and doing other things like this - it was was cosmetic work, and I simply forgot about :s command. Then I finally run drc() to check the board and You know the rest.

Regards,
Michał Widlok

PS. I generally don't use full name on any public forum. Is this information really makes any change?





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