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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA/gschem still alive?
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 11:56 AM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 7 Jul 2015, Ouabache Designworks (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
>>
>> Rather than concentrating on what we don't like, I wonder if anyone can
>> point to a FOSS Eda tool out there that you do like. What did they do
>> right
>
>
> <snip>
>
> My favorite EDA tool is gEDA and PCB. Among with many others, for these
> reasons:

We are all being critical because we are trying to find the reason
development/interest has slowed.

>>
>>
>> have changed a lot since the 1980's and some things that we did back then
>> no longer work. One example is search paths. If you look in the default
>
>
> I love that things are simple 80's stuff. For me search paths are easy to
> understand and maintain. They don't always work out of the box, but it's
> easy to fix them.
>
>>
>> gEDA currently defines a dot_sch schematic file and a dot_sym symbol file
>> as
>> our interchange formats. These are read into gschem and stored in some
>> internal data structure that gschem manipulates before it is written out
>> in
>> a save operation. Why not use a FOSS data base instead of internal memory?
>
>
> And this is another major reason: I love the idea that there is no database
> involved and things are just files on my system, for the same above reason.
> Maybe this wouldn't scale well if I wanted to have 10 million symbols - but
> really, I am not even sure about that. Anyway in the scale I work, I'd have
> 100x more problems with a database.

Databases can be trouble when it comes to some of the workflows people use.

>> If PCB also used the same database then cross probing and back annotation
>> become easier.
>
>
> This is a good point too: I love how gschem and PCB are _not_ tied together.
> I indeed miss back annotation, but I do not miss any shared database thing
> between gschem and PCB.

The Unix mentality these are all independent tools that we choose to
combined this way. Most people have avoided binding them via a
database because they want to keep things separate.

> You can call simplicity and separate tools 80's technology, I'm fine with
> that. I also realize that if you want to target the most common enginner of
> the 21st century he will miss databases and more integration. But is it
> really worth rolling out an N+1th EDA of the same kind? I vote for keeping
> these unique featres of gschem as they are.
>
> Regards,
>
> Igor2



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