Re: gEDA-dev: Proposal for a gschem Tools menu for list of scripts

[al davis <ad151-at-NOSPAMfreeelectron_dot_net>]

A few more notes ....

What I sent in the last mail was without looking at the existing 
files, to show how clear it could be ..

It could use a scheme-like syntax and be just as clear.

New points are:

1. External programs easily.

2. Small, easy to comprehend files, each with a dedicated 
purpose.


Lots of programs have huge config files, and a GUI to manage 
them.  The GUI is a cover for the hugeness of the file.

If there is a GUI to manage the config, it is important that the 
files can be manually edited also, and remain compatible with 
the GUI.  The generated files must be easily readable, so they 
can be used to teach the text file format.  The generated files 
should be at least as readable as good manually created files.

Actually, that "GUI" is not necessarily graphic.  Anything that 
wraps the real files fits.  As an example ..  "autoconf" 
and "automake" wrap the Makefile like a GUI but without 
graphics.  It has the same problems as a GUI, hiding what is 
really happening, without the advantages.


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