X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=hw6HwaCVp9oK6Udojb20nJ/BAGeDu7tbwYWLNhKdJ1k=; b=ZBqbDTzJ5gvI3YptatTdO4fpXIsvkFYW+HnFPNQfrmQ4g2+vsSpj6Gf9OeOk+yB0dy zLUTSMyFEvHcKBZvUW4RyDjjQP7rxrIuIhCiQS5+SE/3V2GQgJthVFJA+yT38StZ1/+8 aZH1KJvgbeDVNpK/b3o+6qI2ZcA0eyN3I2j4nE/I40N9OW/sEmPA/Lj4klpVbBgDWOMT U40Sj0WnJb64RtJG92QIjRr50FEKq4IsnSpTtR7x5TCfpfyqQnQ+9rYpkgKDl0/EPTzh mHo9unwA4qBDMOheEOxZFdykNak9y289TstjrivKSnc3f005MUAteoqns0tZ2xs9OoGM Z3Vw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.171.35 with SMTP id ar3mr22126164lbc.90.1451451474274; Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:57:54 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20151229212943 DOT 2d486c8c AT wind DOT levalinux DOT org> <322D36D8-DAB6-4117-B22B-8FF515B00D2B AT noqsi DOT com> <538AF43A-E94A-433B-B050-AD5C4D48EC4F AT noqsi DOT com> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 04:57:54 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: gEDA and it's future with Scheme & Guile was Re: [geda-user] Project leadership From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: gEDA users mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 4:38 AM, wrote: > > > On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote: > >> >> On Dec 29, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via >> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> >>>> >>>> You don?t have to make unwelcome changes to extend the toolkit. That?s >>>> an advantage of a toolkit. Use it. >>> >>> >>> Unwelcome wagon? >> >> >> New construction is welcome. Dynamiting a foundation to make an opening >> because you don?t want to use the door is not. > > > 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? That actually made me laugh. Thanks I needed it. > 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. > -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/ -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v2 mQENBFYy4RYBCAC183JomLtbdAlcKiaPDoVHq52LDmVmH75aiEc69m7YxDt54/ai VtYCAobbGVIyn3Hlz3uhF6LnPl/6Lm1VdnCfpwu3KQhCO6ds10ow2C30X4ohCqOd hCVg5C+ILmQkEffFrFODy3ji+PYTF4pADvHCWsTMv0hf0llwFOJsBCK6cl02IffE JPqy4PjM1nZ9HpzT84JBaG/4OGvTZ8SQ2yFUl265jagvygPTf88H1xpZHH1r8dB1 stjUHLmPH8AOyDgKxFchgGeDc3p/vJtgDDIXAFfDXG0NSRovLmtaQdGxe47Zf/go bXiEM7YL2WqQe5zfEA919JxkEwlDKYniOSVzABEBAAG0N0V2YW4gRm9zcyAoVGhp cyBpcyBteSBwdWJsaWMga2V5LikgPGV2YW5mb3NzQGdtYWlsLmNvbT6JATkEEwEC ACMFAlYy4RYCGwMHCwkIBwMCAQYVCAIJCgsEFgIDAQIeAQIXgAAKCRCIpQTcE8nN bbBaCACAm8pU5lG1ev2Fsw68Axtcl57SJrYieqX96c3YuYH9JpqMqJRnd9nDKw9X tQuvuH7tUk0VbOaDqReOYJVI/4c5wb9AaOFp6K2DUcupq6XhgXpvz3HzoPwjAdIj XuQzdRUx5+innTJrSkGuBYW/CZ2zqEx4xfLlq4rO0hoTUMR8QVp2cCrkw6BT0m86 APIw/ZnjoxM8IEzr7MxfRIg3qpzrZk28rmhx+k78Jyk61UhwcCPGIm/pjUopTwYJ 3YBdRB2cYD2aN7A1JVf5cRmSQYooHBGpH0kYvomGk97PKqypVuJ7OpG9xM58wUcC qUVt9hKlePLzP8csYjt8onqI7qIIuQENBFYy4RYBCADlH8spG3WkCx62vB5mr5Z0 SCDd/RcyA4A5y5EOj5KurQkrSWpgi9Ho1yKruMJ6blQR2qkc66KqH9pnXDm/ZI1M K/wdW3ngETxBmXoozzFMT89aEWIVR5/PFodWK1elekE9iJxACuR98Zg2QttTD3x8 A9w8VEyMLOXcDTrPFpHegMKswFBg5iuMulAdXAoGejWTI3n+qKFpabHm2Lfs6wjk 5rjucpTdeFK6UeWF1xAvNxXibuu5BlGwv53930qIXRwO/Gn2Rh5DXWxKU2fEIme/ xgQQmIsDeUoWbfybdjw/x7Q0LW4mINiLDQcGHHRQKFIxbAJCT3USPLGh5xwE9/Er ABEBAAGJAR8EGAECAAkFAlYy4RYCGwwACgkQiKUE3BPJzW0uYAf9Hf30n8tM3mR2 Zo6ESE0ivgdgjaJtAWrBUx7JzAzPjBnBOlNnu5Y9lVEqetvUPH6e3PvaHYUuaUU8 0HwxuKBW9nUprgV6uIu1DZmlcp+SxpbuCy7RDpNocRLNWWFMaYYzznmTgfnTgD4D gCq8Mf1mcfrluTkOAo+QNqbMfl1GISClopRqxVuAo59ewgMnFujwgd8w12BwWl24 CzqOs5HqcUslePj+LzcjSNgVCklYwKl+0dsb/fctMOCtHodwqm2CBJ+zydvNmYkD fxda/J91Z1xrah5ec++FL0L4vs+jCiIWJeupJFKlr1hCMZiiGH7W554loK5l4jv3 EY347EidAw== =Ta4p -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----