Re: gEDA-user: Topics discussed at yesterday's Free Dog meeting (10.6.2005)

[sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson)]

> The project manager can't be that badly broken because I just recompiled the
> 8/20/05 version of gaf and have a working project manager. I quite like the
> interface as it's very gtk2 looking. I'm running gnome 2.12.1 on gentoo,
> latest of most things.
> 
> If I recall from 6 months ago using it the tools->make pcb function didn't
> work as well as gsch2pcb, so I ended up not using it too heavily.

Funny you should point that out today.  For the first time in about 2
-- 3 years I ran the project manager this morning.  On my previous
attempts it would segfault while starting up.  Today, it started right
up.  

However, the tools invoked in the pull-down menus are obsolete.  "Make
pcb" should invoke gsch2pcb (as you say).  The "simulate" option
runs easy-spice (whatever that is), which isn't part of gEDA.  

All in all, it is quite possible that a light remodeling of geda will
bring it into good shape.  Oh, and some documentation too.

Stuart