gEDA-user: interesting links

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I was referer log surfing and came across these links:

www.fritzing.org
and more specifically:
www.fritzing.org/development/market-overview

Here's what this group is apparently planning (wrt KiCad):

tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/482

In some of the threads there are some mentions of gEDA too:

tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/kicad-devel/message/483

More specifically (from somebody named Dick Hollenbeck):

...
"The design of Kicad is actually quite good, and I think it has
potential to truly be excellent. I played with the gEda package for
about 1/2 year. If I remember it is written in C, and I think so out
of religious grounds. Being religiously opposed to C++ is silly at
this point. Being religiously opposed to the use of the more exotic
parts of C++ might make sense. Kicad is not over using C++.
wxWidgets is a decent cross platform gui. It is good enough."
...

Not because of "religious grounds", but rather back when the code base
was first written, the C++ compiler was simply not up to snuff and the C++
binding for GTK+ were non-existant or quite poor. 

								-Ales



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