gEDA-user: First release of uEDA

[msokolov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Sokolov)]

I have just made the first very very alpha release of uEDA.  uEDA is
envisioned to do for the 4-capital-UNIX culture what gEDA has done for
the GNU/Linux culture, but right now it does just two things:

* Provide an alternative to gsch2pcb for getting footprints into PCB;

* Provide a nice (IMO) set of BOM management tools.

uEDA fully embraces the UNIX philosophy that revolves around vi and make
for scripted, iterative, non-WYSIWYG flow, and it also embraces M4, just
to piss off those who hate it so much. :)  I have ported PCB's M4
footprint library from GNU M4 to the original UNIX M4 as part of this
project.

uEDA does not currently replace gschem or PCB but works with them, which
is why I feel that it's OK for me to post it on this mailing list.  In
the future however I plan to replace gschem with uschem, a non-WYSIWYG
schematic capture system in which schematic entry would be done in vi
and graphical schematics would be generated in PostScript by a batch
program similar to the non-WYSIWYG text formatters like troff or TeX.
I do plan to stick with PCB though, except perhaps for making a port of
it to Ancient UNIX with X11R4 and Motif instead of Lesstif.

uEDA release 0.1 can be downloaded via anonymous FTP:

ifctfvax.Harhan.ORG:/pub/hweng/ueda-0.1.tar.Z

(That is not a URL, it's a file location spec from the golden pre-WWW
days.)  An example project that uses gschem, PCB and uEDA for footprint
generation and for the BOM is my SDSL board, work in progress which can
be checked out with:

$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/fs1/IFCTF-cvs co OSDCU

Enjoy or be horrified as you like!

MS


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