On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:51 PM, Joerg wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:00:01 -0400, John Doty wrote: >> >>> But the idea >>> that computers can actually automate your workflow has been lost >>> in the >>> "personal computer" era. The strength of gEDA is that you *can* >>> automate >>> it: >> >> You have praised this many times before. Ironically, one of the >> weaknesses of gEDA is a lack of scriptability. Even pcb with all its >> actions is only half way there. >> > > That was my impression as well. After kicking the tires for a while > and > finding important things it cannot do which my current CAD can do, > most > of the answers I received were along the lines of "can't do that > right > now", "needs a fork", "give some money, maybe someone will code > this in" > and so on. > > So I've hung up on gEDA for now. But this doesn't mean I won't check > back in regularly because the idea of open source CAD is great.
I suspect you'll never like gEDA. It's a toolkit, like TeX and all its supporting tools (which include the usual suspects like make and AWK). You apparently want a monolithic, manually operated tool like Word (ugh), not a scriptable kit. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
