On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 22:49 +0200, Levente Kovacs wrote: > AS DJ pointed out, PCB and the tools around it involves the philosophy of > UNIX, and so they will never get merged. At least I hope. We like it as it is.
I agree that the tools exist as individual pieces, and will probably stay that way, however I wouldn't represent the entire gEDA user / developer community suggesting that we don't want integration. Flexible and powerful tools aren't necessarily enemies of "integrated". Integration doesn't mean merging tools, it means making them work together better, and is what Newell's gSoC project was all about. We're not quite there yet, but arranging processes such as output preparation should be possible from a GUI application. Those output files would be automatically tracked for whether they are up to date, or in need of update. It is also quite possible for them to be updated automatically when changes are made to the board, just no-one has written this code yet. -- Peter Clifton Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
