X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-help-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 100.0.183.69 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_3F6A9AA8-4ADD-440A-B474-321CC815B3F5" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 10.3 \(3273\)) Subject: Re: [geda-help] Linux Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 16:19:50 -0400 References: <20200829221451 DOT GA2565 AT newvzh DOT lokolhoz> <664de6c2-ad96-8298-1b64-ad550acfca64 AT k4gvo DOT com> <20200901193434 DOT GB19839 AT newvzh DOT lokolhoz> <20200902141116 DOT GA2911 AT newvzh DOT lokolhoz> <20200902165424 DOT GB2911 AT newvzh DOT lokolhoz> <333FD0E9-238C-445F-AEE4-850B0EA19A88 AT ece DOT orst DOT edu> To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: <333FD0E9-238C-445F-AEE4-850B0EA19A88@ece.orst.edu> Message-Id: <2A687A4D-3219-431E-8866-2D11C2418C81@noqsi.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3273) Reply-To: geda-help AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-help AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_3F6A9AA8-4ADD-440A-B474-321CC815B3F5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On Sep 2, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Roger Traylor (traylor AT engr DOT orst DOT edu) [via = geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >=20 > Pardon me for being uninformed, but I=E2=80=99ve looked around and = have yet to figure out > exactly what the difference/motivation was for the lepton fork. I=E2=80= =99m not being > critical, but trying to understand it. I may adopt it in the future if = I knew what > the benefits were. Minor developer here, but mostly a user. I favor Lepton for continuing = with the original gEDA vision in two ways: 1) It embraces and extends the Guile-based scripting that made gEDA so = amenable to automation. 2) It=E2=80=99s agnostic about which layout program you use: it has no = favored layout component. Roland has demonstrated that he can be hyper-productive with his = Xorn-based gEDA, but I found it incomprehensible. Guile is much easier = to understand. The layout people I work with all have different favorite = tools, so decoupling schematic entry and layout is very important to me. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_3F6A9AA8-4ADD-440A-B474-321CC815B3F5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

On Sep 2, 2020, at 3:08 PM, Roger Traylor (traylor AT engr DOT orst DOT edu) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] <geda-help AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

Pardon me for being uninformed, = but I=E2=80=99ve looked around and have yet to figure out
exactly what the difference/motivation was for = the lepton fork. I=E2=80=99m not being
critical, but trying to understand it. I may = adopt it in the future if I knew what
the benefits = were.

Minor developer = here, but mostly a user. I favor Lepton for continuing with the original = gEDA vision in two ways:

1) It = embraces and extends the Guile-based scripting that made gEDA so = amenable to automation.

2) It=E2=80=99= s agnostic about which layout program you use: it has no favored layout = component.

Roland has demonstrated = that he can be hyper-productive with his Xorn-based gEDA, but I found it = incomprehensible. Guile is much easier to understand. The layout people = I work with all have different favorite tools, so decoupling schematic = entry and layout is very important to me.

John Doty = Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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