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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] The new to do
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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:31 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 15, 2015, at 6:24 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>

snip

>
>> or being needlessly complex.  The opposition to *any* change has made
>> this more difficult than it should be.
>
> No, it *should* be difficult. Geda-gaf is a mature, stable, useful toolkit. Ill-considered change is bad. Adding features to software is like adding mass to aircraft: not always bad, but there’d better be very strong justification.

Respectfully that is just obstructionist since we can undo basically
anything except user expectation.

>>
>> PCB's importer is an example of that.  We improved the existing tools
>> to implement a significant convenience feature, and made it easy for
>> the user to use.  This doesn't prevent you from using the old gsc2pcb
>> if you want.
>>
>
> But that itself reflects pcb’s inflexibility. If you could import netlists from 20 other tools, you’d want those interfaces factored out, I think. I certainly would.

How do you know this is not a prelude to that being done by someone
else? It might not be on DJ's radar but I can see the EDAcore
initiative doing it, heck it seems like their mission statement.

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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>
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