Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, 

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> kai-martin knaak
> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:36 PM
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> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Ben mode feature request
> 
> Stefan Salewski wrote:
> 
> > The user base of brlCAD is marginal
> >> and will probably shrink even more, as more intuitive open 
> source CAD 
> >> applications will become a viable alternative.
> >> 
> > 
> > That may be true, but I am not really happy with the wording.
> > Some kids may be tempted to do something like sed -i -e 
> > 's/brlCAD/gEDA-PCB/'
> 
> Well, the usability of geda-PCB is not that far off-road. 
> It is on par, or better than its main competitors kicad and 
> eagle (in my humble opinion). 
> That said, it is certainly true that geda looses potential 
> users because of the command line thing. It makes the newbie 
> expect the need for much more command line magic down the line.
> In reality, you just issue simple commands a few times per 
> project. And you can avoid even these with xgsch2pcb or pcb-pull.
> 
> These two work-flows really should be advertised more -- In 
> the documentation, tutorial and in the articles in wikipedia.
>  
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> Kai-Martin Knaak
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> 

Avoiding the command line won't help you on the gschem --> simulation work
flow.

Loosing potential users due to a command like thing is probably something a
lot of *nix apps and tools suffer from.

I can't help people who will not try to learn what is neccesary, or do
whatever it takes, to solve their *own* problems.

Sad, but true.

IMHO there is no true hacker fu in them.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.



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