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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA/gschem still alive?
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On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-use=
r AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

>
>Rather than concentrating on what we don't like, I wonder if anyone can
>point to a FOSS Eda tool out there that you do like. What did they do righ=
t

<snip>

My favorite EDA tool is gEDA and PCB. Among with many others, for these=20
reasons:

>
>
>have changed a lot since the 1980's and some things that we did back then=
=20
>no longer work. One example is search paths. If you look in the default

I love that things are simple 80's stuff. For me search paths are easy to=
=20
understand and maintain. They don't always work out of the box, but it's=20
easy to fix them.

>
>gEDA currently defines a dot_sch schematic file and a dot_sym symbol file =
as
>our interchange formats. These are read into gschem and stored in some
>internal data structure that gschem manipulates before it is written out i=
n=C2=A0
>a save operation. Why not use a FOSS data base instead of internal memory?=
=C2=A0

And this is another major reason: I love the idea that there is no=20
database involved and things are just files on my system, for the same=20
above reason. Maybe this wouldn't scale well if I wanted to have 10=20
million symbols - but really, I am not even sure about that. Anyway in the=
=20
scale I work, I'd have 100x more problems with a database.

>If PCB also used the same database then cross probing and back annotation
>become easier.

This is a good point too: I love how gschem and PCB are _not_ tied=20
together. I indeed miss back annotation, but I do not miss any shared=20
database thing between gschem and PCB.

You can call simplicity and separate tools 80's technology, I'm fine with=
=20
that. I also realize that if you want to target the most common enginner=20
of the 21st century he will miss databases and more integration. But is it=
=20
really worth rolling out an N+1th EDA of the same kind? I vote for keeping=
=20
these unique featres of gschem as they are.

Regards,

Igor2
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