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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:26 PM, al davis <ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net> wrote:
> On Saturday 05 April 2014, Dave McGuire wrote:
>>   That's, erm, ridiculous.  Who cares if it's "available"
>> with a "distribution"?  Just download it and install it.
>
> For many who are not programmers that is very difficult to do.
> Even if the distro does provide it and it isn't installed it is
> too difficult for many.
>
> Really, it's worse ..  There is no Makefile, so most people who
> download it would have no idea what to do with it.
>
> We need to make our stuff useful to everyone.  Not just advanced
> programmers.  Lots of pro PC designers can't program at all, and
> have no idea how circuits work.

These folks aren't using gEDA anyway.