Karel Kulhavy wrote:
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:02:30PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
Hi Guys --
I had an exchange with a guy on the Gnucap-devel list recently. He claimed that gEDA wasn't ready for prime time, so I challenged him to list specific complaints about gEDA. His response was both thoughtful and interesting. He posted it to the web at:
http://www.triode.net.au/~telford/news/2004/12/28/
"Of course, Free Software will win in the end because Free Software keeps building and building."
"Free Software is a long term strategy and I understand that."
;-)
Cl<
Free Software means never having to say "now what do I do" when your closed source vendor goes belly up.
A "dummies guide to gEDA" would be nice but a lot of the problem is related to the flexible nature of linux.
With that other OS where you know exactly what is available in the user enviroment but in linux you have no
idea if the user's distro has the needed libs or not. Locating,downloading and installing a bunch of different
programs is daunting for a end user. One solution would be to simply build all needed libs in with the
application. So what if it is bigger and slower if it works right out of the box on any linux box.
I did like his suggestion about perl. Make a perl wrapper for gschem that set's up the menus and
all the initial values and have it call compiled geda code to do all the real work. That would make
it easy to customize for any end user
John Eaton
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