On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:18 -0700, John Doty wrote: > Divorce gEDA from pcb. Create a schematic plugin for pcb, since that > seems to be what pcb users want. The flexibility of the > gschem/gnetlist flow is unnecessary to hobbyists. The current > developers are dangerously pcb-centric.
ARE there any "current" gEDA developers? That is slightly rhetorical, as I know Peter Brett is doing some thankless, but HUGELY important work on refactoring the gschem drawing code into a separate library. This library will be important to the project as it opens the possibilities for creating external previewers, thumbnailer's, library managers, command line printing tools etc.. which don't require gschem to render graphics. Some day I hope PCB can do this too. Peter has also done work on guile APIs recently. (I'll confess not to have followed that particularly closely, but it was not in any way PCB specific). Without offending anyone I hope, I think it would be fair to say there is ONE "current" gEDA developer, and I think you would struggle to point out anything detrimental Peter Brett has done to the project. His dedicated work on thankless tasks have helped keep things alive at a time when gEDA development has / had otherwise completely stagnated. (Yes, Peter B and I are friends, so I'm biased - but I think this all bore saying.) -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
