Re: gEDA-user: SPICE/gEDA going to the LDP . . .

[Wojciech Kazubski <wk@ire.pw.edu.pl>]

There should be a note about original Berkeley SPICE. There are some source 
tarballs available and sometimes even binaries (usually of ver. 3f5 with some 
patches and upgrades), so there is a good chance to get working binary for 
one's system. Spice 3f5 has some graphical capability.


Wojciech Kazubski

 
> > On Thursday 20 May 2004 09:51 pm, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> > > Happy reading, and I look forward to your comments,
> >
> > Why do you promote LT-Spice?  It's a closed source rip of spice.
> > Closed source "free" software is a major threat to real free
> > software.
>
> The HOWTO is about doing SPICE simulations on Linux.  LTSpice is a
> great SPICE simulator, it is much more stable & complete than
> [ng|tcl]spice, and it runs on Linux.
>
> My focus is getting the job done, not necessarily promoting GPLed
> software, or the FSF's agenda.  I do agree with the FSF's principles &
> goals, but that consideration is secondary to getting the job done.
>
> > I suppose it would be too much to suggest that Gnucap does
> > belong there.
>
> You have an excellent point:  I should also include Gnucap.
>
> When I originally started looking into the area of SPICE on Linux, I
> was led to believe that Gnucap was something slightly different from
> SPICE.  My interest at the time was in simulating circuits
> incorporating SPICE models from various vendors -- e.g. Analog
> Devices, National, etc.  I didn't want to play around with something
> non-standard 'cause I was having enough trouble getting *spice to work
> properly.  Therefore I didn't try Gnucap, and my understanding of the
> free SPICE arena was shaped by that experience.
>
> Moving forward, I should probably include a blurb about Gnucap in the
> HOWTO.  Are you willing to write one or two pages describing how to
> install and run Gnucap?  I'd of course stick you in as a contributor.
>
> Alternatively, I will investigate Gnucap myself & write the blurb.
> This might take a long time -- e.g. months -- because time is
> currently constrained.  But it is now on the "to do" list.
>
> Thanks for reminding me to include Gnucap.
>
> Stuart