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On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> Am 05.09.2015 um 23:39 schrieb Vladimir Zhbanov:
>>> But at the moment, unless we drastically change how we do things,
>>> > KiCAD is #1.
>> Over and over again...
>>
>> Does this mean we should replace Guile with Python?
>
> It doesn't matter too much. If people need to script at all, the case on
> newbies is already lost. That said, Python is certainly a lot more
> common, so the entry barrier for not-so-newbies for scripting is
> considerably lower.
>
>> (Emacs Lisp with Vim scripts?
>
> Scripts should be editor-independent.
>
>> LaTeX coding with LibreOffice widgets?
>
> Neither. Nobody reads multipage documents. People recognize two kinds of
> education: interactive help, like tooltips, and web pages, like a wiki.

If its something like GNU documentation vs. wiki, what GNU ends up with is
order of magnitude better.  Not that we're in a position to achieve that.

Britton