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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Freerouting?
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:33 AM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 05/18/2016 01:09 PM, M. J. Everitt (m DOT j DOT everitt AT iee DOT org) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>>   Hey folks.  What is the current state of Freerouting with gEDA/PCB?
>>> Are we able to interface to it at all, in any way?
>>>
>>>   (We discussed this at length about two years ago, and, predictably,
>>> the discussion devolved into another argument that had little to do with
>>> the subject at hand.)
>>
>> Can't beat a good bit of bike-shedding ... *eg*
>
>   Exactly.  I spent hours googling, and I found that several people had
> worked on DSN/Specctra interfaces, and, as was also very predictable,
> they can be found in about six completely different and unrelated places
> on the net.
>
>   This is really quite ridiculous.
>
>   I have been a daily gEDA/PCB user for fourteen years, in both personal
> and professional contexts.  Over that time, the projects have become so
> incoherent and incohesive (is that even a word?) that even I, having
> used it every day for nearly a decade and a half, cannot figure out
> what's going on.  It seems that there is no "one true" gEDA or PCB!
>
>   Note well that I'm not sitting here complaining that nobody will step
> up and do a ton of work to improve something that's free.  It'd just be
> really nice if people would just stop creating these additional
> repositories with patches and fixes and plugins and blah blah blah that
> will (inexplicably!) never get merged into the main package, instead
> there are half a dozen completely different packages, being worked on by
> different people with different divergent feature sets, that all claim
> to be gEDA or PCB.
>
>   Is it really impossible for people to work TOGETHER on this project?

This situation really is quite a bit better now.  DJ and Bert make a good
effort to integrate branches, and the author of the big fork (pcb-rnd)
makes a reasonable effort to make his stuff usable by main line if anyone
troubles to pick it up.

Britton