Mail Archives: geda-user/2017/02/14/11:10:21
In the past, I have followed a very conservative approach about
user-visible changes. I improved the inner workings of gEDA/gaf to make
future improvements easier while putting a lot of effort into not changing
anything exposed to the user. When I thought a user-visible change would
make sense, I would post it to this list to see if there was a consensus
in favor of it.
The problem is that this didn't work. For any proposal, even for features
which have been requested by many users, there were some people opposing
them because they would have preferred me to implement it another way; at
the same time, people kept flaming me about internal changes which didn't
affect them at all.
On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> Let's assume users weight refactorings and cleanups and elegance-of-code
> a bit lower than actual features they need in daily use.
I think my approach has been wrong. Instead of offering a solid
infrastructure and waiting for the actual solutions to follow, I should
have put equal emphasis on *using* the new possibilities. There is no
point in cleaning up the code unless you intend to do something with it.
gEDA/gaf now has back annotation, parametric subschematics, and custom
power symbols without a ":1" suffix. Expect more to follow.
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