Re: gEDA-user: Open-source friendly EE programs

[Al Davis <ad62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 13 January 2005 12:13 pm, Werner Hoch wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 04:39, Oren Laskin wrote:
> > > Senior capstone.  They need to do a PC board.  I gave
> > > them a choice of either Eagle (runs on Windows) or PCB
> > > (runs on anything except windows).
> >
> > I've been playing around with PCB on windows.  Is there
> > something I should know that I'm doing wrong? :)
>
> I've used PCB on windows with success.
>
> Just install cygwin with the neccessary libraries and the
> compiler. Compile and install PCB.
>
> thats all.

That's a stopper for most Windows users.  Most people who know 
enough to do that also have a Linux/BSD/whatever system and 
would rather use it.