Re: gEDA-user: Thread on /.

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:20:10AM +0000, Peter Brett wrote:
> On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:22, John Doty wrote:
> > http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/06/02/24/222212.shtml
> >
> > I suspect this person's hangup is autorouting PCB's. I can't really
> > comment because I don't use pcb, and don't know Eagle (although I
> > have successfully exported two gEDA projects to PH70, an obscure PCB
> > design tool used by a favored contractor of one of my customers).
> >
> 
> LOL. Apparently gEDA is too incomplete to replace Eagle.

He seems to be a newbie, doesn't judge by technical abilities, but
rather technical abilities filtered through usability. And that is
better for Eagle and Orcad than gEDA I think. Simply put, he didn't know
all the shortcuts, tricks, quirks and peculiarities of gEDA.

CL<
> 
> They were complete enough (and better than) OrCAD for me, and that costs just 
> as much or more than Eagle!
> 
> Peter
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