Re: gEDA-user: gEDA and pcb status and minigration from Eagle

[Christoph Lechner <cl0023@xxxxxxx>]

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Bill Gatliff wrote:
> Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
>>> Just don't want to ride a dead horse and notice later that the projects
>>> freeze
>>>     
>> No way. There way too many independent core developers. Even if they all 
>> were to quit coding, I am sure some power users would carry on the flag. 
>> Some users already did forks for their own purpose...
>>   
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> Given the proprietary nature of Eagle, you'd be far more screwed if they
> decided to kill the software than gEDA.
ack.

But what I really hate about proprietary software is the fact that you
have to pay for the most recent release.

Others mentioned it already, but the ASCII file format is a big plus of
gEDA and PCB. Keeping the files in revision control systems is no
problem, as the diffs are so small compared to a binary file where the
whole file is stuffed in the RCS.

Or for example I coded my own script to keep my symbols in sync with the
Xilinx fitter report. Given the pin count of todays CPLDs or FPGAs this
saves me a lot of hassle.

You can create net lists for AFAIK 20+ PCB programs....

So, don't hesitate to check it out
- - cl
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