gEDA-dev: Re: GEDA development ....

[John Doty]

On May 8, 2007, at 6:53 PM, al davis wrote:

>
>> Now you worry me again. Sounds like EDIF.
>
> There is good and bad in any design.  There is good even in the
> failures.  Most (all??) successes happen because of the
> failures.

Most disasters result from repeating failures.

>
> To see places where an intermediate format is used, look at most
> compilers, and at the "pbmplus" graphics translation
> collection.  I am sure there are others.
>
> It doesn't matter to most users what the intermediate format is.
> You never see it.

If that's true, it's good. If it isn't true, it's a disaster.

> Only the developers see it.  I recommended
> the use of a format that others are using so we can be
> compatible with it.  Is this bad?

For the user, it doubles the number of interfaces and black boxes  
where if something goes wrong, it is difficult to understand.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd at noqsi.com