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On Oct 29, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:11 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Oct 29, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:
>> 
>>> John, I like gEDA for the same reasons as you, but everyone else is still
>>> right.  It will die if the new user experience doesn't get better.
>> 
>> Why would it die? The need for power tools will remain.
> 
> Because the majority of new developers with the skillset and motivation to
> contribute will end up working on different, competing projects.  Software is
> like fish, if it doesn't keep swimming it dies.  Suppose gtk changes enough
> that gschem needs rework, for example.  Unless you want to do all that sort
> of work yourself you need a viable developer community.

It needs maintainers, not developers. Heros like Juergen Harms and Charles Lepple.

Given that silly things like xeyes seem to live forever, I think the prospects for a package as powerful as gEDA are excellent, at least until something considerably better comes along.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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