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Subject: Re: [geda-user] The new to do
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 04:43:06 +0200
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Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) 
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Those users (and devs) claiming the devs must use their favorite
> language (because, e.g. it's more popular than others, and "millions
> of flies cannot be wrong", sorry for the blunt expression, couldn't
> resist), don't value the efforts of the developers that have already
> been done.
> 
IMO, this is a misrepresentation. I tend to lobby for popular tools 
because they would lower the barrier to contribute below my personal 
threshold. The project desperately needs more major contributors. But 
every major dev has started small.
In addition, the choice of scripting languages does directly affects 
users. After all, the power of scripting really blossoms when it is 
made accessible to the user.

Currently, geda lacks this power both in gschem and in pcb. Gschem 
scripting accessibility suffers from guile. Pcb knows actions. But 
there is no way to do anything but a straight list of actions. Neither 
can use scripts to add to the UI.

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