X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=mail.ud03.udmedia.de; h= subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=beta; bh= j409sp4lcZSca9GVXff18k+N56kYeTUJLgv2dUHhlr8=; b=U+RAcUWL2d/kjzEd uH6hT9odqARIxV2LW/qgeoKFIlk9J/VJZLYZcepqOSvXK2Al2AfvjNfXiVHBuqCz 1E+HXf6SViBfc/8WRxNT+Ou8/KsCqVejSkm8jQobf0jysBlZMoMABd26JWfa+0gx iy5DADlHwnNHUAPwzNFVIDrlEvk= Subject: Re: [geda-user] About reinventing the wheel, and how to avoid it To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com References: From: "Markus Hitter (mah AT jump-ing DOT de) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Message-ID: <55F303BD.1070709@jump-ing.de> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 18:39:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Am 11.09.2015 um 17:51 schrieb John Doty: > Where geda-gaf uses attributes in mostly unrestricted ways, geda-pcb *enumerates* a restricted subset of possibilities. Adding a small subset of possible layer types to this approach has been cheered as a great advance here. Sorry, Nicklas, it makes me shudder. Shudder as much as you want, but stop writing such nonsense. gEDA/pcb isn't about theoretical models, it's about hardware and manufacturing processes fabricating such hardware. As such a limited set of hardware types is not only perfectly fine, it's even a distinguishing advantage. Don't believe it? Well, then use gschem to draw a layout and send the result to a PCB house. Bah. The disadvantage of letting everybody write to the list is that people can publish whatever bizarre crap they like. And other people might take such nonsense seriously, so one has to answer it. "It was written on the gEDA list, so it must be right". Or worse: "these people on the gEDA list have no clue, so better avoid gEDA". Markus -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. (FH) Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/