Re: gEDA-user: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0

[Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 07:07:09PM -0600, John Doty wrote:
> 
> On Sep 7, 2010, at 6:50 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > But any design that requires you to edit files behind pcb's back, is bad.
> 
> You're not thinking "flexible toolkit". You're thinking "inflexible integrated tool".
>

I think the key word here is "requires". Certainly we should allow the
user to hand-edit .pcb files, and have facilities for re-syncing the GUI
on the fly and all that. (I'd also like IPC with gschem, but I can dream...)

However, requiring the user to hand-edit the .pcb file to accomplish
simple stuff, is a Bad Thing. PCB should be able to move stuff around
numerically like Altium, and have a half-decent GUI for rotations and
transformations.


Andrew
 


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