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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The state of gEDA/gaf (Was gEDA/PCBs diversity, Was: Pin hole size)
From: John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com>
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On Oct 28, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Vaclav Peroutka wrote:

> Dear John, 
> 
>> I suggest that those who propose a change to gEDA consider whether the 
> change would be beneficial if pcb did not exist.
> 
> if there is no PCB in gEDA, probably nobody would use gschem alone.

Hikyuu:Source jpd$ gnetlist -g help
List of available backends:

allegro                  bae                      bom                      
bom2                     calay                    cascade                  
devel                    drc                      drc2                     
eagle                    futurenet2               geda                     
gossip                   gsch2pcb                 liquidpcb                
mathematica              maxascii                 osmond                   
pads                     partslist-common         partslist1               
partslist2               partslist3               PCB                      
pcbfwd                   pcbpins                  protelII                 
redac                    spice-noqsi              spice-sdb                
spice                    switcap                  systemc                  
tango                    vams                     verilog                  
vhdl                     vipec                    

Look at all the things you can do with gschem's outputs that are not pcb!

I do schematic design. My customers' layout people do not use pcb. Right now, my major design project is VLSI (under construction at https://github.com/noqsi/VideoASIC), which pcb *cannot* lay out.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com