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Am 22.09.2015 um 18:10 schrieb Roland Lutz:
> there are basically two options: merge everything, or decline
> everything.  I'm not a fan of either.

Only the "accept everything" of these two allows natural selection: may
the better one win. Disk space isn't an issue these days, so there's no
problem to have five tools doing the same, as long as lazy people
(newbies!) get their job done.

> Until now, I don't
> know of a single person who actually tried the Xorn netlister, and only
> of one person who looked at the code.  If you ask me, that's the core
> problem with gEDA development right now.

That's not a gEDA problem, that's a general problem. People currently
have an extremely strong tendency to rewrite everything from scratch
instead of looking at and improving what's already there. As you did
yourself.

With everybody trying to rewrite from scratch, who's left to review all
this written code? Right: nobody. The only chance to get Xorn reception
is to enhance the experience of users. Like fewer clicks for newbie-type
users, like more options for experts, like solving problems which were
unresolvable before. Seen in this light, Xorn is only 50% finished so far.


Markus

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