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On Sat, 07 Feb 2015 16:03:42 -0500
Dave McGuire <mcguire AT neurotica DOT com> wrote:

> I still maintain, however, that there would be an image
> problem.  It is most decidedly a nontechnical issue, and in a perfect
> world it should never even come up.

Most people don't really care about the implementation. It is only us, the
electrical engineers AND programmers at the same time, who argue. When I
was employed as a professional PCB designer, my colleges didn't know, and
didn't even care what is going on behind the scenes. 

I haven't seen an engineer saying: I don't use this EDA tool, because the
file format is XML, or Lua, or whatever.

However, I've seen lots of engineers who say I use this EDA tool because
this have this and that feature over that EDA tool, which lacs them.

So I think we should make our mind up, decide, design, and implement.

I think the bottleneck of gEDA today is the file format of PCB.

* arbitrary paste shape
* arbitrary solder mask openings
* 3D data - at least a height would be nice

If we had that three, gEDA would get a big push ahead.


Levente