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

[zeroguy <zeroguy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think it's wise to just delete an entire site like that. It
would be better to just turn that whole space into a big redirection to
the current PCB site. Deleting pages just causes more broken links and
confusion, etc. to clutter up the web (see
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html ). Just my thoughts.

(And there _is_ a link to the sf.net site on there, but I suppose it
could be more obvious.)

-zeroguy

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:01:55 -0500 (EST)
sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson) wrote:

> 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 put a huge, blinking sign on it saying that it is obsolete & that the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<
> > 
>