On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 13:18:24 -0500 DJ Delorie <d...@delorie.com> wrote:
I regret that I made that comment. > I wish it weren't so common. Such wars are a pointless waste of time > and serve only to drive valuable contributors away. Soon, the only > people "working" on gEDA/PCB will be those who enjoy complaining, as > there will be nobody left willing to wade through the bitter arguments > and actually write code. I agree with you. But I think that it is a fact that there are lots of wars. We should really concentrate on "work". > So let me make this perfectly clear - if you're not willing to write > code, your complaints about how others write code will fall on deaf > ears. As far as I know, those of us who DO write code, do it for > purely selfish reasons - we benefit from our own work. We've said > this before, it should be no surprize to anyone. I think in an open source domain, users and "code writers" are pretty much the same. I consider myself a user, but there is code in PCB of mine. I've written a few scripts for gEDA/PCB as well. It is not much, I know. I am willing to write code, but I'm not good at code writing (Never tried it seriously though). > OTOH if you have suggestions on how to make gEDA/PCB better - easier > to use, more functional, etc - feel free to voice them. If you can > back them up with a solid design and usability models, that's even > better. Discussions about the details and caveats are to be expected! Yes! I meant "war" that I feel everyone dumps their experience, favourite tool, etc. without working the problem. > But as soon as the discussion degrades into yet another bikeshedding, > the instigators of said bikeshedding have lost all credibility with > me. > > New users - ask your questions without regret. There are no bad > questions. Harvest the answers that are useful and ignore the crap. Yes. The "let us start a Vi vs. Emacs" comment was a joke. -- Levente Kovacs http://levente.logonex.eu _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
