Bert Timmerman wrote: > Avoiding the command line won't help you on the gschem --> simulation > work flow.
It ain't necessarily so. (cite from a song I'll sing on Wednesday :) The current simulation work flow of geda sucks big time. Absence of a GUI way is only a minor itch when compared with the real issues. Anyway, it is difficult to convince users on the power of your framework, if they refuse to use it from first impressions. > Loosing potential users due to a command like thing is probably > something a lot of *nix apps and tools suffer from. There are not that many CAD applications that rely on the command line. Unix tools tend to deal with tasks that don't need a GUI in the first place. The same cannot be said of schematic capture and pcb layout. Both lend themselves naturally to graphical user interfaces. In a way, geda+pcb+command line is like a GUI text editor that relies on shell commands to do search&replace. > I can't help people who will not try to learn what is neccesary, > or do whatever it takes, to solve their *own* problems. Since there are commandline-less alternatives, they do what it takes to solve *their* problems. However, none of them will contribute to geda/pcb in any way. > Sad, but true. A project with a dwindling user base will slowly freeze to death. Sad, but also true. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai-Martin Knaak Öffentlicher PGP-Schlüssel: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0B9F53 _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user