Mail Archives: geda-user/2017/12/11/13:12:28
gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> (part 1 was the 66.667% announcement; part 2 was the rationale of the
> split; now about the future)
The progress of pcb-rnd is super cool!
Although I haven't yet tried pcb-rnd I have always enjoyed reading
about pcb-rnd changes and development.
I recognize that what started as a fork of gEDA pcb has grown into a
whole family of tools with increasing quality and opportunity, and I
understand and support the decision to "move out of the parents' house"! :)
Nevertheless, I consider pcb-rnd super relevant to gEDA and all gEDA users.
> Since the emperor of gEDA is DJ
Mh. I don't see him that way. I think (hope) he doesn't either.
> 1. We stay and lurk; if someone asks anything about pcb-rnd, we answer.
> 2. We stay and lurk; if someone has a pcb problem and pcb-rnd has a solution,
> or someone makes a pcb feature request and pcb-rnd bites, we answer.
> 3. I send the usual release announcement upon every pcb-rnd release:
> release notes and the urls
> 4. We go on announcing new features that we think may be interesting for
> potential users
..
> If there's no decisions, I will probably pick 1, 2 and 3. Point 4 is
> useful only if gEDA decides to change and promote pcb-rnd as its
> preferred pcb editor;
I would like to plea for 1, 2, 3 *and* 4.
> if it goes on pushing PCB, details on pcb-rnd will be just noise
> for PCB users
See my story above. This assumption doesn't hold.
> who will never try pcb-rnd because it's "not official".
This is also an assumption which doesn't hold in my case - not yet
trying pcb-rnd has nothing to do with promotion or officialness, but
everything to do with personal priorities and time management.
I am quite sure that I will try pcb-rnd in the future, and I would be
happy to learn about cool pcb-rnd development also on geda-user.
Thanks a lot!
//Peter
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