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To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_65E35CBA-452B-4281-8757-29A86753E886 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Russell Nelson = wrote: > But you could just as easily say that trying to present the entire = library to a new user is chaotic. Hrm. >=20 I think Kai-Martin=92s =93essentials=94 library succeeds rather well as = a starting point. The hard part afterward is damping down the = expectation that expanding the library will proportionally expand = capability. Any common library is guaranteed to fall short of user needs = once you get beyond the simplest projects. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_65E35CBA-452B-4281-8757-29A86753E886 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252

On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Russell = Nelson <russnelson AT gmail DOT com> = wrote:

But you could just as easily say that trying to present the entire = library to a new user is chaotic. Hrm.

I think = Kai-Martin=92s =93essentials=94 library succeeds rather well as a = starting point. The hard part afterward is damping down the expectation = that expanding the library will proportionally expand capability. Any = common library is guaranteed to fall short of user needs once you get = beyond the simplest projects.

John Doty Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

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