Re: gEDA-user: GTKWave status?

[Ales Hvezda <ahvezda@seul.org>]

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From: Andrew Bardsley <bardsley@cs.man.ac.uk>

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Matt Ettus wrote:

> I'm confused about gtkwave.  Could some one answer the following  --
> 
> Is gtkwave still being actively developed?

Erm, yes, I'm just a bit busy at the mo' and not ready to put out a new 
version for at least a few weeks.

> Which is the latest version?

There are two branches.  The 1.3 stuff is still handled by Tony Bybell and
includes all his latest LXT work.  The 2.0 work is carried out by me and
aims to make GTKWave much easier to add new things to and to allow others 
to add file format readers.  I'm not sure how successful I've been in this 
respect.

> Are both the 1.3 and 2.0 branches moving forward?

Yes

> What is the latest version for which a Windows binary is available?

I don't provide Windows binaries for 2.0 (or any other type of binaries 
with the exception of the odd MacOSX look-it-really-does-work type of 
build).  I welcome others providing Windows binaries, however, but I 
really don't want to be asked about them.  Tony's branch has, at various 
points, made it into binary form for Win32 platforms but I don't know 
where to get the binaries from or who generates them.

> Which is the "official site" for gtkwave?

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/apt/tools/gtkwave/index.html for the 2.0 branch.  
You can also find a mirror of the 1.3 distribution here (when I remember 
to copy the files!).  The 1.3 stuff can be found at:
http://www.linux-workshop.com/bybell/ver/wave/wave.html too.

> Is there anonymous CVS access?

No.

> Is it possible to display signals as a graph (i.e. amplitude vs. time)?

There is some analogue waveform support in the Synopsys/EPIC .out format 
reader.  I look forward to code submissions for other formats and decent 
support for better upper/lower bounds handling etc.

> Thanks
> Matt

Pleasure

--- Andrew (your GTKWave 2.0 (pre ;)) maintainer)
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