On 08/22/2011 11:29 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
The commercial package he wants to keep up with seems to be altium designer.
Oh, I guess that's why I referred his request to others. I like the "radical flexibility" of gEDA tools without getting evangelical about it, and KiCAD is closer to Altium already, so gEDA-PCB is unlikely to get CERN's approval. On 08/23/2011 11:47 PM, John Hudak wrote: > No offense, but from all the stuff I've read from the gEDA base, > various blog postings, and freelance how-tos, a common topic that > always seems to come up is that with these tools and a knowledge of > scripting languages, one can do just about anything. Well, pardon my > bluntness, but, I've forgotten more scripting languages than I know, > and I don't necessarily want to learn another one to make gEDA tools > work for me. This is an old concept discussed many times on this list. gEDA is not near to a windows app and is not likely to get there soon. Unless Peter C. gets hired as a top gun Altium conversion translation consultant... On 08/24/2011 04:17 AM, Stephen Ecob wrote: > It > could benefit the gEDA community to adopt Altium refugees - they're > used to spending $4K per year Maybe Peter C. will be a hired gun after all... On 08/24/2011 09:33 AM, Jared Casper wrote: > From my own experience, above the certain level of PCB > complexity the intuitiveness and efficiency of the GUI become a > paramount. " I'd have to disagree. Chips are complex. Chips and dense boards depend on some automation and a lot of complexity handling by humans. The algorithms kicked off by simple GUI check boxes are more important than GUI flamboyance. JG _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
