[sdiy] Pulsonix PCB design software

[Ben Bradley]

> So you're saying their "stable build" is the f'ed up one, and you're
> supposed to use the betas?
> (with regards to outright bugs like hard-coded paths of the "it works on my
> machine award" kind - do they test the stuff before unleashing it?)

   I've tried to go through the Kicad tutorial a few months ago - I
found it remarkable that one of the first things it has to do is make
a new component, but then I had trouble with the libraries - when it
was saved and I went back to the schematic I couldn't find the new
component, or couldn't get to the library or something. I checked the
tutorial version, it wasn't for the same version as the latest stable
build for Windows I was using, so I thought that was the problem ...

>> really like that it's currently getting a spice integration.
>
> You know, all those features it reportedly has were what made me curious,
> too.
> But if you have to balance an egg on your head, stand on one leg and
> jump-turn two-and-three-thirds times around, *then* click this or that, to
> make something simple work,
> I'll have to say no thanks. The lure is not great enough to make me
> brainwash myself chanting "broken is fine!" all the time.

   I know it's what it's all about, but I was never good at the Hokey Pokey.