X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 19:58:21 +0200 (CEST) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: Re: [geda-user] PCB and gschem libraries In-Reply-To: <4DE58696-8D37-4EB8-8181-F66B547575C7@noqsi.com> Message-ID: References: <1427905808 DOT 32608 DOT 60 DOT camel AT benjamin-hp-g70> <20150401214846 DOT 5d2261e6 AT jive> <201504011954 DOT t31JsnKh020289 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <20150401221210 DOT 1b4a299e AT jive> <201504012014 DOT t31KEq1m020861 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <551C574F DOT 2030708 AT xs4all DOT nl> <4DE58696-8D37-4EB8-8181-F66B547575C7 AT noqsi DOT com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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 On Thu, 2 Apr 2015, John Doty wrote: > >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. > > >I think Kai-Martin?s ?essentials? 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. I agree. I've made a few remarks on some details (like German names), but generally I think too that Kai-Martin's essential lib looks better than the current stock library shipped with gschem/pcb. I still don't see how/when/by-whom the current lib would be replaced to whatever new lib the community agrees on. Regards, Igor2