Re: gEDA-user: fork of pcb ?

["harry eaton" <bumpelo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Edwards, the author of XCircuit is indeed making a Tcl/Tk GUI version of
pcb; I don't believe his intent is to fork the program, simply to make yet
another GUI for it and to increase compatibility with XCircuit, and a Magic.
I believe that I let DJ know about Tim's efforts a long while ago since Tim
was starting the processes when DJ was first talking about it.

It's possible that Tim's and DJ's efforts are different enough that it will
be a long time before the code merges, but I believe that is Tim's intent.
He did start the effort before the GTK port was first made so merging is
likely to be difficult, but I do think that it would be useful for Tim and
DJ to talk to each other about what they're doing.

h.

----- Original Message -----
From: "DJ Delorie" <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geda-user@xxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: gEDA-user: fork of pcb ?


>
> > At sourceforge the gui is being redone into GTK and in general there
> > seems to be a closer association with gschem.
>
> The sourceforge gui is also being redone in lesstif and wxwidgets
> using a new HID interface.
>
> > Does anybody have any inside information about what is really going
> > on?
>
> Nobody has posted an authoritative note here about what is happening
> on opencircuitdesign.  So no, we don't know.  Maybe Harry knows.
> Harry?