Re: gEDA-dev: Project Manager

[Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk-at-NOSPAMfamilieknaak_dot_de>]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:40:48 -0400, Stuart Brorson wrote:

> gschem/gattrib -> gnetlist -> PCB -> gerbv 

> gschem/gattrib -> gnetlist -g spice-sdb -> gnucap/ngspice -> gwave

I fail to see, why we need a project manager for these workflows. Just 
add two export options to gschem file menu. One produces proper output 
for pcb via gnetlist. The other would call gnetlist -g spice-sdb. This 
seems almost trivial, but does the job. Furthermore, it should be easy to 
grab by a newbie too. (It is intuitive to "export-to-pcb" if I want to 
convert a schematics into a pcb). No need for an additional complex piece 
of software.

What else would a project manager be good for? I assume, it should/could 
foster all those project related files. But then, there is already a host 
of sophisticated tools called file managers to deal with sets of. Why 
reinvent the wheel? Let the user use what ever he is comfortable with. 
Some like the command line, others prefer nautilus, or konqueror, ore 
even the midnight commander. If I recall protel, their "project manager" 
included a less than perfect file manager, whose bugs let us curse. A 
good project manager is not trivial at all.

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