Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 9, 2009, at 9:56 AM, al davis wrote:

> 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?

What's the problem you perceive? The author seems primarily concerned  
with the lack of a Windows binary. The other common complaint that  
comes from that direction is that gEDA is a toolkit, not an  
integrated tool (but I say Hurray!).

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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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