Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/12/30/03:17:29
gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
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> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote:
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>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
>> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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>>>> You don?t have to make unwelcome changes to extend the toolkit.
>>>> That?s an advantage of a toolkit. Use it.
>>>
>>> Unwelcome wagon?
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>> New construction is welcome. Dynamiting a foundation to make an
>> opening because you don?t want to use the door is not.
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> Having a huge house with no door. Want someone to rent it.
>
> Enter: Customer
>
> You climb in through the window, as if it was the most natural thing
> in the world. Customer asks whether there could be a door, just a
> small one, somewhere back, where you don't even see it. He assures you
> won't even need to use it ever.
>
> NO! That's too integrated! Rent a toolkit instead! What, you want to
> dynamite all the walls and foundations and destroy the world? Do you
> realize that the slightest manipulation of any of the walls would turn
> the solar system into a black hole?
>
> Customer: ok, so what about just enlarging this window by 10% so I can
> get in easier?
>
> (verse: all the above reasoning with integrated vs toolkit, repeat
> four times)
>
> Leave: customer.
>
>
where is the like button ;-)
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