Restates the 2023 refactoring plan (refonte_du_code_de_qelectrotech) as a
statement of direction, and says plainly what QElectroTech is not trying
to be.
Marked as a proposal at the top, not adopted policy, with review invited
from the active contributors. If it is adopted, development_roadmap needs
updating to match; if it is rejected, the page should be deleted.
The core position: QET will not become an EPLAN replacement and should
stop being measured against one. Its three defining properties -- a
project is one file, it opens anywhere, it is built by the people who use
it -- are worth more than feature parity, and a shared database or
mandatory central part data would trade them away.
Where it differs from the current roadmap is listed explicitly at the end
rather than left implied: seven items already delivered since 2023, the
SVG element format buying less than it is said to, the SQLite proposal not
distinguishing a derived cache from a source of truth, an inverted
dependency in the ElementInformation item, and the latest stable release
being January 2026 rather than January 2024.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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