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On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote: > > On Sep 12, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:08 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote: >>> >>> On Sep 12, 2015, at 12:55 PM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 09/12/2015 11:53 AM, John Doty wrote: >>>>> On Sep 12, 2015, at 10:25 AM, John Griessen<john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> On 09/12/2015 10:51 AM, John Doty wrote: >>>>>>>>> Test cases are important, but I don’t think it’s necessary to have add-on modules maintained with the core sources in order to test them together. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Why? Roland made a clear case for that. >>>>> Successful projects like Python keep core and add-ons separate. >>>> >>>> We don't have enough people to act like the python project. >>> >>> There are 51 megabytes of contributions from 83 contributors on gedasymbols.org. We’re *already* acting like the Python project, except we’re pretending we aren’t. All I am hearing is 83 people have accumulated a lot of contributions and that we are perhaps squandering an opportunity by not finding a way to verify them and package them in a release of some kind. >> And gedasymbols is not well used, or well-tested, or particularly >> accessible to the uninitiated. > > We could certainly do better. I know I have said this before but we need a tool that lets people sign each others contributions as having been tested with a given part, in simulation and what ever else. I know it will make the size of the stuff there larger but it would also mean we could look at the more endorsed stuff and pull it into a central distribution. >> It great to separate things into >> modules but there's no point in not storing and distributing them >> together with the core distribution. > > I think many would find a 50 MB distribution a bit much. Simply distributing a mixed bag of stuff with the core will not relieve confusion. I also see the success of the core/addon approach in other projects. It helps interface discipline when they are kept separate. Indeed. Like most people I keep a spreadsheet with which ones I have made and what they go to, if i have used them and additional notes. Perhaps having a standard way to share that info would be of more value than just having the symbols and footprints themselves. Could we all agree on a CSV column list and then put it at the root of our respective repo's? > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. > http://www.noqsi.com/ > jpd AT noqsi DOT com > > > -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/
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