On Jul 22, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Bill Gatliff wrote: > John Doty wrote: >> It worries me that people are wiring their scenarios into the tools, >> when gEDA's unique strength is its flexibility. This isn't limited to >> gEDA: it seems to be a programming universal that people feel >> obligated to turn simple, flexible toolkits into bloated, inflexible >> "applications". >> > > I agree with you in principle. But it would be nice for gEDA to work > "out of the box" for the most basic cases, so that new users don't > have > to work very hard to see results.
I'm all in favor of this. But the right way to do that with a toolkit is usually to wrap the tools with high level scripts. Adding features to the tools themselves is the "cat -v" approach, the road to bloat and inflexibility. 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