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Re: gEDA: Trolltech introduce dual licensing for windows with qt4. Time to change to qEDA



Le Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:36:08 -0600
Bill Wilson <billw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:31:20 +0100
> Svenn Are Bjerkem <svenn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > But in general I am against dramatic rewrites of already running
> > > software and I think that incremental efforts should go into
> > > bugfixing and missing features.
> > 
> > You are right, but on the other hand qt4 is beginning to be a
serious 
> > alternative for cross platform development of open source software. 
> > It is not likely to happen that geda will change gui, but maybe the 
> > guys coding pcb would consider it if they ever want to move away
from 
> > athena.
> 
> After this was discussed on this list a few weeks ago, I started a Gtk
port
> of PCB which short some features, several dialogs, cleanups, and a
problem or
> two to solve is running for me.
> 
> It's something I hoped to bring up on the list in a couple of weeks
because
> I'm really not ready to throw it out there right now or talk about it
much
> (I'm spending my free time working on it).  But since the subject is
brought
> up again I'm mentioning it.  I will say for now that I hope, assuming
there's
> interest, that it's something that can ultimately be maintained under
the
> same Sourceforge management structure (Harry et al) as the current
> PCB since it's something I just decided to do and is not intended to
be
> a fork at all.
> 
> Anyway, I hope to have something anybody interested can evaluate
before
> too many more weeks and in the meantime, here's a current screenshot
> (using the H20-gtk-Saphire theme):
> 
>     http://members.dslextreme.com/users/billw/test/pcb-gtk.png
> 
> Bill
> 

Thanks for the job. I hope to see the results soon as a Debian package!
;-)

BTW, thanks to you with PCB and the gEDA team, LinuxFocus main editor
electronics articles are now done with gEDA/PCB. We have a new fan!

You can find it on:

http://linuxfocus.org/English/February2005/article365.shtml

and within, you will find some comments.

Cordially.

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