gEDA-user: Why use gEDA?

[Peter Clifton]

On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 16:54 -0800, Ben Jackson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:47:00PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > 
> > Have you looked at pcb2panel and panel2pcb ?
> 
> I'll throw that in as another wart -- there are lots of tools that are
> important to the geda toolsuite that are scattered to the four winds.
> Even my own recent work on PCB plugins will probably go unnoticed by
> most.  And the only other plugin I've even seen is teardrops.c.

This is a good point..

Dan.. What do you think about shipping some plugins with PCB, say in a
"contrib" directory, or even have them built and included by default?

If, at the very least, so they are available when distros package things
up.

Peter C.