Re: gEDA-user: Kicad

[Florian Steiper <florian.steiper@seco-lissberg.de>]

Dan McMahill wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:44:19PM +0200, Florian Steiper wrote:
>  
> > Hello
> >
> > Did anybody try/heard of Kicad ? I stumbled across the program at 
> > OpenCollector and it seems to be doing pretty much the same as the Geda 
> > suite, only thing is that all the documentation is in french :)
> >
> > Here is the Url: http://www.lis.inpg.fr/realise_au_lis/kicad/
> >
> >    
> wow.  It seems, from the screen shots, to be a relatively complete
> system at least for creating schematics and a corresponding board
> layout.  I haven't tried to compile it yet.  I wonder how long
> they've been working on this.  I don't speak any french so I'm
> mostly going by the pictures.
>
> -Dan
>
>  
Hello

I downloaded the sources, but it doesn't use the "usual" ./configure; 
make; make install, so I didn't bother trying too much more, but instead 
I got the bigger kicad.tgz archive and the excutable in there are 
working just fine.

ciao

      Florian