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On Oct 19, 2015, at 5:58 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via =
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:11 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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>> On Oct 19, 2015, at 3:27 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak =
<knaak AT iqo DOT uni-hannover DOT de> wrote:
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>>> In my humble opinion, this damages the project in
>>> the long run. It already has done so since about 15 years. We see =
the
>>> result in the number of active developers of back-ends.
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>> That=92s the =93development is a good thing=94 ideology. But in =
reality, it=92s only a good thing if it=92s a good thing. In the early =
days of gEDA, a variety of people wrote a variety of back ends. Is there =
much need for more? There=92s more scope for plugins that *modify* back =
end behavior, but we haven=92t really created that culture. On my todo =
list.
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> No this is the "long term project maintenance requires a modest
> developer base." Nothing in Kai-Martin's email said anything about
> development just the availability of warm bodies who can contribute
> something.
But that hasn=92t been a problem.
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>> That said, I approve of new tools with new scripting languages and =
paradigms.
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> +1
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>> John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
>> http://www.noqsi.com/
>> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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