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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] Project leadership |
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Possibly I got over-excited with that reply.. sorry. FWIW, I think that in some ways, KiCAD is slowly becoming more like gEDA, not the other way around. (But then - I have sat and talked with their developers, and know some of their goals for the next release). Peter On 22 December 2015 at 17:13, Peter Clifton <petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com> wrote: > On 22 December 2015 at 17:01, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote: > >>> KiCAD has had a clear project at most points in its history, and that >>> person has been responsible for shaping the development goals, >>> strategies and targeting what developer effort they had at their >>> disposal. Handover between leaders has (at least in recent times), >>> been clear and decisive within the project. (I'm less clear about the >>> hand-over from its original author to the first project leader). >> >> And the result is an inflexible integrated tool rather than a flexible toolkit. We cover the parts of the space that they don’t. It would be great to interoperate with KiCAD. It would be horrible to become more like them: they already have that part of the space covered better than we ever will. > > > I have no idea how you got to your conclusion from that... > > They have a goal, and a design target - their leadership furthers the > goal of achieving that design... I fail to see how the fact they have > leadership dictates one design choice over another. > > We all _GET_ that you don't like the KiCAD design. > Do you _GET_ that we're (I) am not trying to force that on gEDA? > > > > Peter
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