Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[al davis <ad252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 August 2009, Bob Paddock wrote:
> http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/01/2114210/Cheap-Cross-P
>latform-Electronic-Circuit-Simulation-Software?from=rss
>
> "Cheap, Cross-Platform Electronic Circuit Simulation
> Software?
>
> dv82 writes "I teach circuits and electronics at the
> undergraduate level, and have been using the free student
> demo version of OrCad for schematic capture and simulation
> because (a) it comes with the textbook and (b) it's powerful
> enough for the job. Unfortunately OrCad runs only under
> Windows, and students increasingly are switching to Mac (and
> some Linux netbooks). Wine and its variants will not run
> OrCad, and I don't wish to require students to purchase
> Windows and run with a VM. The only production-quality
> cross-platform CAD tool I have found so far is McCad, but its
> demo version is so limited in total allowed nets that it
> can't even run a basic opamp circuit with a realistic 741
> opamp model. gEDA is friendly to everything BUT Windows, and
> is nowhere near as refined as OrCad. I would like students to
> be able to run the software on their laptops without a
> network connection, which eliminates more options. Any
> suggestions?""

I was out of town when this hit (which was probably fortunate).

What are we going to do about it?

If we want people to use our tools ..

1. They need to be the best.

2. We need to provide a migration path -- in and out.


Gnucap works fine, but there is a problem with the geda 
interface.  Does anyone want to help?



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