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On Oct 28, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Markus Hitter wrote:

> As we see in other posts, some gEDA users can't imagine how their Makefile workflow won't even be touched by alignments on the GUI level and outcry essentially on _any_ change to the toolkit.

I've been burned by changes before. The most serious was when the attribute promotion default in gschem changed, and I wound up with hundreds of components with the wrong footprint attached. This was a change that was supposed to make things easier for small-scale users by a developer who didn't seem to understand big gEDA projects.

> The reason of this (pardon) shortsightedness is beyond me, after all they could easily just stop updating their toolset.

This again demonstrates that you don't understand the ways the toolkit might be used. Do you think every gEDA user works by themselves? It is extremely important that my customers and collaborators be able to install gEDA and work on my projects. gEDA isn't limited to small projects by a single person. It is, in fact, excellent for big projects.
 
If you only see gEDA as an appendage to pcb for hobbyist projects, you haven't grasped its real power at all. That's why all these plans are dangerous.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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