Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 18/05/11 00:30, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:59 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
>
> > Instead of blindly reinventing the wheel, i always look in detail
> > at what currently exists.
>
> Maybe KiCAD is a better starting point for you?
> Written in C++ with wxWidgets, it is available for multiple OS including
> windows. Here in Germany KiCad is more popular than gEDA/PCB, even for
> Linux users. I do not really understand this, I have never find time and
> motivation to really test KiCad myself. While gEDA/PCB has some serious
> users and a large list of projects done with gEDA, KiCAD users seems to
> be more childreen type, making boards with a power LED and a led driver
> chip...
>
> On the KiCAD developer mailing list there is much activity, but there
> are only a few really smart and active developers, so development
> progress is slow. Indeed, nearly all windows KiCAD users seems to be
> only consumers, without any contributions. And there is Fritzing or Qucs
> -- Qucs has schematics and simulation support, but PCB backend is
> missing. Once I had the strange idea to implement a PCB or schematics
> mode for inkscape. Really crazy.

The problem with KiCAD is 1) C++, 2) Qt.

C++ was a *really* bad idea. Qt i don't like because it was fundamentally
architected just for the sake of hiding code from users using the MOC
preprocessor that used to be closed source. Anyway, it's C++ too.


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