Re: gEDA: Re: Patches for PCB automake/autoconf system

[Karel Kulhavy <clock-at-NOSPAMtwibright_dot_com>]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:16:41AM +0200, Piotr Miarecki wrote:
> Hi Stuart and All,
> 
> at first - I compromize everything if you only agree to work together on gEDA installer/setup, including Python. The only condition is that every step should carry a new functionality, not rewriting the existing code nor writing everything from scratch.
> 
> Majority of gEDA tools are one-person-projects. If a developer has no time for gEDA, temporarily or permanently, the tool is not maintained. A good example was setup and gmanager during past time. If you look into setup.cfg you see that it supported pcb, gwave, gtkwave and other tools - but in old, obsoleted versions. Because during past three years I had only few time for gEDA. 
> 
> If you start a new installer project - this is what probably happens with your installer in the future as well. I propose that we cooperate. There are many features missing: updating support for non-gaf tools, porting to windows, creating a tool for creating setup.cfg, supporting APT/RPM(/PKG) databases, etc. 
> 
> Answering your questions:
> * setup HAS BEEN designed using glade, take a look into CVS: ~/glade/setup/setup.glade,
> * setup does support ALL gEDA tools (now in obsoleted versions, it needs to be updated),
> * setup is written in C, yes, because imo its a gaf standard, as well as guile should be used for scripting (imo it means also: not python, perl, etc.) - but this is a subject that should be separately discussed with Ales.

I appreciate the fact these tools are in C and not in Perl or Python.
C is fast and there's no danger that some new version will come in which
something will behave differently.

Cl<