gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

2006-07-29 Thread Russell Shaw
Stuart Brorson wrote: Anyway, IMO we shouldn't require users to build .pdf files in their distributions. Pdfs should just come with the distribution. IMO a .pdf file is a make dist target, requiring the developer to have the right tools installed, not the user. If every package had pdf files

Re: gEDA-dev: Re: [Gnucap-devel] Gnucap docs build failure on FC5 (and other places)

2006-07-30 Thread Russell Shaw
Stuart Brorson wrote: Generalizing, the problem is *dependencies*. For end users, one of gEDA's bigger problems is the number of dependences. Distros are all over the map in terms of what is bundled, what is not, what is installed by default and what is not. Many of the complaints we hear

Re: gEDA-dev: Gschem and Cairo graphics library

2006-07-31 Thread Russell Shaw
Bob Paddock wrote: On Monday 31 July 2006 05:26, Levente wrote: If you have a $10k worth of software, use that. gEDA is for thoes, who don't (wanna) have. I have the $15k+ software, Protel, and I think it sucks compared to gEDA/PCB. It has become so bloated that there is no consistency in

Re: gEDA-dev: Re: GEDA development ....

2007-05-08 Thread Russell Shaw
John Doty wrote: On May 8, 2007, at 1:24 PM, al davis wrote: The problem with Spice is that it is not flexible enough. It might be flexible enough for you, but lots of people bump against its problems on a regular basis. That's why there are others like Spectre, Touchstone, Hyperlynx,