Re: gEDA-user: Suggested removal of http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

This is a good point.  One important thing we need to do with gEDA is
make it newbie friendly.  If a newbie comes across the old 0.63
(or whatever) version first, he'll become extremely frustrated & will
likely abandon open-source EDA.

Harry, if you don't want to just delete the page, perhaps you could
put a huge, blinking sign on it saying that it is obsolete & that the
new stuff lives on pcb.sf.net.

Just my $0.02 (=EUR 0.00001 in a few more years).

Stuart


> 
> I suggest http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/ to be removed
> 
> When I was starting with PCB, I first came to this page. It made a feeling on
> me that it's the official, latest page of the PCB project.
> 
> I wasted lot of time with setting the thing up, patching up the autorouter.
> And then suddenly, unintentionally, I found out that this page exists too:
> http://pcb.sourceforge.net/
> where I could get the same (+autoplacement, +more features, +bugs
> fixed, +easier compilation).
> 
> Other users may get trapped into this trap of fossil versions.
> 
> I suggest a "rm -rf" to be applied on this homepage.
> 
> Do you think that there is a reason to keep this page?
> 
> Cl<
>