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On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:50 AM, DJ Delorie wrote:

> Agreed, and we've driven off a fair bit of our user and developer
> population with heated arguments that serve neither group.

Having submitted a patch (with Bas Gieltjes) for a serious gnetlist bug in 2010, and having it received with hostility and eventually rewritten to the point that it didn't actually fix the bug, I submit that the hostility of the developer community to real repairs is a much more serious barrier to getting the essential work done than my opinions are.

> *My* focus is not on the niche users, but on the
> "ordinary user" - as I'm an "ordinary user" myself.  I use gschem and
> pcb to make circuit boards.  I have the same wants and needs as most
> geda users.

In other words, your focus is on yourself, just as mine is. The difference is that "ordinary users", using only a limited subset of gEDA's capabilities, have alternatives. Those of us using the breadth and power of gEDA do not.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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jpd AT noqsi DOT com