Re: gEDA-user: Building geda under Windows

[Al Davis <ad62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 04 March 2005 06:00 pm, Christoph Lechner wrote:
> I'm just wondering what I would need to build gEDA on
> the Windows platform. I read something about cygwin
> and/or mingw, but I got almost no experience with recent
> Windows releases, as the last Windows release I used at
> a regular base was Windows NT4 WkSta.

I think the most important thing needed is a Knoppix disk with 
gEDA and other EDA tools on it.

The only down side of this is that it is slow.  Our Knoppix 
needs to be able to be installed, just like the original 
Knoppix.  Then it won't be slow.

Even more important, we need to work on the integration between 
the tools.  It needs to be able to compete against PSPICE, 
LT-Spice, Protel, and Eagle on its own merit, with no 
apologies.

We should target the educational market.  To get there, we need 
to make it prettier and easier to use than the cripple ware 
they use now.  We have some substantial advantages in this 
market.  We should exploit them.

On Friday 04 March 2005 06:18 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>  Porting
> gEDA to Windows just creates another clunky EDA application.

and another excuse to stay on Windows.