Bill Gatliff wrote: > John P. Doty wrote: > >> The people who seem to appreciate your work don't seem to understand >> gEDA. They expect something like the "do everything poorly with one >> tool" approach that is so distressingly common in software these days. A >> kit of tools, each of which does one thing well, is alien. But that's >> gEDA, that's its strength. >> >> > > For the record, I just said I liked his documentation and website--- and > pled ignorance on everything else. :) > > Look, I'll first apologize for starting this whole thing by calling you > names, John. I intended it in jest, but obviously my email didn't make > that clear enough. Sorry. It was inappropriate behavior from me, to > say the least. >
No need to apologize: I've a pretty thick skin. I don't even recall what you said. It had nothing to do with my distress. > I agree that one of gEDA's strengths is that each component does one > thing, and does it very well. That fact alone has made it much easier > for me to get my head around the small parts of it that I need to get my > relatively modest designs done. > > It looks like Anthony has re-invented a wheel, and that's difficult to > accept. But his motivation to contribute is no less commendable as a > result, and I really do appreciate his effort--- and I suspect that you > do too, John. I know he would love to hear that. > I appreciate his positive effort, indeed. But why must he falsely disparage what we already have? gEDA is a miracle: a lean, flexible toolkit in an age of complex, inflexible bloatware. > In the bigger picture, I'll note that the tutorials and FAQs I've seen > for gEDA all focus on a pretty specific workflow, which is to turn a > schematic into a circuit board layout. There are obviously a zillion > different ways that the tools would be useful, and I would really > appreciate it if someone would write a few of them down! > I'm working on a gnetlist back end tutorial. I think that the capabilities of gnetlist are underappreciated, and that specialized back ends could be very useful. > I'm a Contributing Editor for Embedded Systems Design magazine. If > anyone wants to help me co-author a few short articles on using gEDA for > things like circuit board layout, schematic capture, simulations, and > whatever else it's good for, I'd be more than happy to give you ample > credit and to assist in whatever capacity I can to see to it that the > documents get published. They should be good candidates for the Wiki, too! > > If we can get some word out, and commit to documenting some of the > really cool ways people are solving problems with gEDA, then I think > we'll all get along a _lot_ better. We'll focus our efforts on the > parts of gEDA that are truly lacking (and even identify them!). And > we'd call more attention to the project, too. > > > <bluto> > > "Now who's with me?" > > </bluto> > > > b.g. > > -- John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ j...@noqsi.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user