Homebrew PCBs

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:44:31AM -0400, john cooper wrote:
> IME where the scales tip for me with gEDA/PCB is getting an answer
> to a question usually in minutes and a patch to a suspect
> problem in an hour.  And being able to use even 30+ year old
> 'awk' technology to tweak footprints, etc.. on well documented
> text file object representations -- for the odd occasion when
> the GUI doesn't meet the need.  That all pretty much seals the
> deal for me.

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I really appreciate the simple text format of all the saved files,
it means you can script *anything* (I use perl instead of awk to
do it though). Generally I prefer the unix philosophy (a collection
of smaller tools rather than one huge monolithic tool) since it
gives you more flexibility - if the authors didn't think of it
chances are you can write a short script to do it and add it to
your build process.