Re: gEDA-user: Manual routing only

[Dan McMahill <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:11:09AM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote:
> On Saturday 29 January 2005 09:32 am, Xtian Xultz wrote:
> 
> > > "Manual routing only."
> > > (http://opencollector.org/collector.php)
> > >
> > > This is IMHO wrong. PCB has autorouting too.
> 
> > I never used auto routing in any EDA software
> 
> I think the point is that many people discount PCB because they do not know
> it has all of the features that it does.  They Google for 'pcb' find the home 
> page, it is the first hit in Google, with the ancient  1.63 version give it a 
> try, get frustrated then move on to something else like Eagle, or worse get 
> scared off because the page talks about patches, GLIBC etc.    Yes I know it 
> says "The Latest PCB stuff on sourceforge" at the top but people don't always 
> read that...  Even the pcb.sf.net page might turn off a lot of people because 
> it does not mention that PCB works on Windows, via Cygwin.


actually thats not true:  

http://pcb.sourceforge.net/faq.html#windows

I will concede that it does give some disclaimers about how well it may or may
not work on cygwin though.


-Dan

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