On 09/03/2011 03:50 PM, Pierce Nichols wrote:
Taking those over to KiCAD or geda by
hand would be a big time hit... time that I could be using to do any
number of other things.
Developing translators between these truly open formats is important, and needs
promotion and enlisting of many volunteers. The time available from the core project
volunteers is small. They don't volunteer to "be of service to the universe",
but rather to get things done that they want. So, enlisting more volunteers is
the most important thing to do.
On 09/03/2011 04:42 PM, Andrew Back wrote:
>> It is intractable by volunteers, yes. The corp versions are
>> > incomplete though, so theirs are not fully usable either.
> This sounds to me like something a proprietary UNIX vendor might have
> said to Stallman or Torvalds many years ago.
I speak as an active gEDA volunteer of testing, documenting and little bit of coding.
You don't seem to realize what a tiny amount of effort has created FOSS tools.
It's a limited resource. Promoting to get more volunteers is what is needed,
and they need to be cooperative sorts, not "my way or the highway" types.
Are you a coder? Are you offering time for the gEDA pcb project or gschem and gnetlist?
John Griessen
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