Mail Archives: geda-user/2013/07/21/10:47:54
Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 19.07.2013 19:53, schrieb Stefan Salewski:
>> Teardrops is DJ's plugin, see
>>
>> http://www.delorie.com/pcb/teardrops/
>
> Is there a reason why this is a separate plugin and not part of the
> official sources?
>
>
> Markus
>
Hi Markus,
A couple of months ago I had planned to get all known plug-ins into the
pcb repository (after review by peers of course ;-)
And then I got drowned in the day job (too much work is a luxury
problems these days, so I'm not complaining).
The plug-in mechanism of pcb itself is a strong feature, for it allows
plug-ins to be coded in other programming languages (I have seen a java
plug-in amongst others).
Another advantage is that (power) "user" tools for pcb can be kept
outside the main repo, keeping the maintenance burden low for devs, for
example: it took effort to keep the plug-ins up to date after the
nm-resolution change.
So IMHO the pcb plug-in mechanism itself is a keeper !
If you want to do a stab at it, here is my collection of plug-ins:
https://github.com/bert/pcb-plugins
YMMV ;-)
I'm available for testing and reviewing ;-)
Kind regards,
Bert Timmerman.
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