On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:08 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > >> But gEDA isn't a tool: it's a toolkit. > > I consider gEDA to be a tool. gschem, gattrib, gnetlist - all tools.
gschem, gattrib, gnetlist are tools. gEDA is a toolkit. > Thier job is to help engineers automate the design process, to do > that, they have to know a lot about electronics design. Collectively, yes. Separately, no tool needs to know more than its specialty. That's modular, factored design. > >> The less a tool knows about . . . > > You just said it wasn't a tool. The toolkit is composed of tools. The tools are specialists, the kit isn't so much. 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