On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:59 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote: > > Instead of blindly reinventing the wheel, i always look in detail > at what currently exists.
Maybe KiCAD is a better starting point for you? Written in C++ with wxWidgets, it is available for multiple OS including windows. Here in Germany KiCad is more popular than gEDA/PCB, even for Linux users. I do not really understand this, I have never find time and motivation to really test KiCad myself. While gEDA/PCB has some serious users and a large list of projects done with gEDA, KiCAD users seems to be more childreen type, making boards with a power LED and a led driver chip... On the KiCAD developer mailing list there is much activity, but there are only a few really smart and active developers, so development progress is slow. Indeed, nearly all windows KiCAD users seems to be only consumers, without any contributions. And there is Fritzing or Qucs -- Qucs has schematics and simulation support, but PCB backend is missing. Once I had the strange idea to implement a PCB or schematics mode for inkscape. Really crazy. Best wishes, Stefan Salewski _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user