Hello John, I am really happy (and a bit of surprised) that critical postings are still allowed for this list.
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 22:07 -0400, John Hudak wrote: > You might want to consider import/export capability for the most widely > used commercial product (not sure what that is at the moment). Import/Export is fine for all free/open available formats. Unfortunately many important formats are not free, so we would have to do reverse engineering or use confidential leaked documentation. Some of us refuse to do that, including me. An example is the specctre format. > You may want to consider the following as well: > 1) An updated tutorial that is accurate Yes, to make simple minded people happy we need all that. Smart people seems to have not really big problems with current gEDA state. The problem with simple minded people (like me :-) ) is, that they are consumers (stupid and greedy), with no intention and skills to really contribute. And they do not understand or care about the difference between free speech and free beer. Many of your points are easily to fix even for people with no programming skills, ie. writing new, really fine documentation. But it is hard, boring work, so I do understand that the developers prefer coding. DJ has done it very well with his http://www.delorie.com/pcb/docs/gs/gs.html -- unfortunately some beginners miss that tutorial. And it would be fine to have a few more clean and consistent documents like this. Do you think all that is really better for other tools? I am not convinced. Best regards, Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
