Mail Archives: geda-user/2014/08/04/07:14:43
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> Yesterday I wrote some minimal description of the intended behaviour of
> my gschem clone, see
>
> http://www.ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en
>
> In first line this is for myself -- to motivate me to continue the
> cleanup process and to ensure that my cleanups will not change the
> intended behaviour...
>
> Recently someone pointed me to one of these commercial Web-based editors
> -- this one is from Digikey called SchemeIt, see link at bottom of my
> page. I can remember I have tested a similar tool about one year ago for
> a few seconds -- looked not really bad. Some people say that this kind
> of Web-based tools is the future -- is someone really using it?
>
> And schematics and PCB layout on smartphone and tablets -- I can
> remember that some people said that that is the future. I still can not
> really imagine how this should work, and I have not seen such Apps yet.
> Is someone using it, and is it really the future? Or is someone of you
> already working on such an App?
I have PCB installed on my nokia n900 (not a typical device). It works to
some degree and once I even used it once to capture a draft.
I may be an old-style user but for me web apps are just slow programs
most often with inefficient and even annoying UI, and a lot of risks (what
if I'm offline when I need to access the design, what if the host goes
bankrupt or just makes the wrong decisions in a new version, etc). I
prefer apps that I can run locally and combine them with my choice of
version control.
Regards,
Tibor
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