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

[Bert Timmerman <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dan,
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 19:48 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> Stefan Salewski wrote:
> > KiCAD: I was asked about it some days ago, here it is
> > 
> >> I know KiCAD, but I have never used it myself yet.
> >> When I started with free EDA tools 4 years ago gEDA was looking more
> >> "professional", so I chose gEDA/PCB. But KiCad and gEDA have make
> >> progress since that time. So I think KiCad can be used for production
> >> work now.
> >>
> >> The main difference is, that KiCAD is available for Windows too, and
> >> that KiCad is more integrated. Some people like this integration very
> 
> Just as a note, the last several pcb releases have included windows 
> binary installers.  As far as I know, the limitations of pcb under 
> windows is some of the m4lib -> newlib converted footprints had a naming 
> conflict so a few footprints are missing and also since windows doesn't 
> support printing postscript with lpr, we don't have a direct printing 
> path (have to print to postscript and convert to pdf or something) under 
> windows.  The sourceforge logs actually show *more* (by a lot) downloads 
> of the windows installer than the source code.  There could be a number 
> of different factors as to why that is and could lead to a number of 
> different conclusions.  I think about the only safe conclusion is that a 
> moderately large number of windows users were interested enough to 
> download it.
> 
> -Dan
> 

FWIW,

One *nix box over here competing with a XP PC (with mechanical design
closedware) and a Vista laptop (which after buying didn't accept dual
boot setup due to some HW close-out issue, thanks a lot bummers @
Packard Bell).

So it's 1 *nix vs. 2 windoze ;(

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.





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