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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Remy wrote:
> Some other documents about EDA standards :
>
> IPC-D-356 Inter Process Communication -> netlist
> http://www.downstreamtech.com/Support_CAM/Advisories/IPCD356_Simplified.pdf
>
> PADS forum :
> http://www.pcbstandards.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=51c5cfb49b9405f91ae82e64299485d3&f=84
>
> IPC-7531A & IPC-2581
> http://www.pcblibraries.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=16

Good stuff Remy! Thanks.

We will be OK. Our roadmap may not exist quite as formally in text 
form yet as would be nice. But I think it is starting to emerge clearly 
enough among some of the developers. There is a tendency among 
non-developers to think, upon seeing slow progress, that this is because 
of a lack of vision by the developers. In other words, "things must 
not be moving because the developer doesn't know what to do next". 
More often than not however, the developer has no shortage of ideas, 
just a shortage of time. The time to implement good ideas dwarfs the 
time required to come up with them. So by far the bottleneck is 
implementation time, not conceptualization time.

What we are talking about lowers the time to implement future ideas by a 
country mile. The Python binding on top of a stable in memory document 
model will create an incubator for all kinds of import and export 
utilities. And the important thing is that the time to implement these 
utilities will be DRASTICALLY lowered, putting Kicad in the fast lane.


We will be OK.

Any good structure is not built on sand.


Dick