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On 1/10/2016 2:32 PM, John Doty wrote:
>
> On Jan 10, 2016, at 2:01 PM, Dan McMahill (dan AT mcmahill DOT net) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> It is not loaded because it is not finished.
>
> It’s a flow-specific personality module for gschem. It should not be loaded by default, even if finished.
>

Perhaps I should clarify what I meant.  Not only is it not loaded by 
default, and I agree that it should not, it's very existence is not 
advertised nor are details currently given on loading it because it is 
not ready.  My vision for when such things should be loaded is either 
during a running session via something like a menu that lists all the 
currently known modes (pcb, berkeley spice 3, gnucap, other spice, 
whatever) and you pick it and it goes to that mode.  Or maybe there 
should also be a rc file setting to make it default for the site, user, 
or project.

But I do agree that the most which should be loaded by default (even 
when complete) is something that says "pick this menu item and you'll 
load the ### backend".

The reason you don't want to load all of them is you probably want a new 
menu category for each and really, I don't want to be working on a 
circuit board and have potentially several other menu categories for 
tools I don't use.  This is pretty standard on some commercial EDA 
tools.  You get extra menus when you launch a different mode in a 
schematic editor.  I could even picture one mode adding multiple menus. 
  For example a spice3 mode might have a "sim setup" menu which lets you 
configure things like which analysis to run, global defaults like path 
to simulator, global options to the simulotor.  And maybe a simulate 
menu with things like recreate the netlist or run with an existing 
netlist.  Then there may be a results menu.  Now multiply this by N 
different backends.  We really don't want them all to be there all the time.




-Dan