Re: gEDA-user: Reinventing the wheel

2011-05-19 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 04:25:40AM +0200, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Stefan Salewski wrote: 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... kicad is

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-13 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: XML is far too heavy, agreed, and it's signal-to-noise ratio is abysmal. I think that using a Lisp (or Lispy-looking) format would be extensible, easy to parse, and make the most people happy. Allow me to toss out JSON. It is

Re: gEDA-user: Functional blocks and PCB format changes

2010-09-13 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 08:40:47AM -0700, Andrew Poelstra wrote: The problem I have with JSON (and to some extent, Lisp) is that it is not self-documenting. You can't open a JSON document and immediately see what everything is and what it does; it just looks like gibberish and brackets. I

Re: gEDA-user: Use of Alt+Mouse1 (was: Next problem, PCB looses rats)

2010-06-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:33:44PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: Maybe it's time to travel into 2010. I don't run Windows. Why would I need Windows-specific keys? Because despite the logo, it is easy to remap it to Super (in fact, Ubuntu seems to do that that be defaut). I for one like having

Re: gEDA-user: PCB + GL latest (patch for indirect rendering support)

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:59:35PM +, Peter Clifton wrote: For those testing the PCB+GL branch git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git git checkout -b before_pours origin/before_pours Could you add a bootstrap script like a lot of other projects have? Also, when I try to generate

Re: gEDA-user: PCB + GL latest (patch for indirect rendering support)

2009-02-11 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:39:23PM +, Peter Clifton wrote: On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 09:44 -0500, Joshua Boyd wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:59:35PM +, Peter Clifton wrote: For those testing the PCB+GL branch git clone git://repo.or.cz/geda-pcb/pcjc2.git git checkout -b

Re: gEDA-user: poll: How do you geda?

2008-06-04 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 09:55:26AM +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: I am curious, just how heterogeneous the group of geda users and developers is. So I thought, I'd start this little non-random sample poll in the mailing list: * What OS do you run geda applications on? Solaris/SPARC, OSX

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-17 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 05:27:26PM -0500, al davis wrote: I think I am beginning to understand .. A Live CD requires no other software. No operating system other than the one on the CD. Hence anyone can run it, but with a reboot. And while in the Live CD you can't run your normal

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-17 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 07:44:27PM -0600, John Griessen wrote: I heard from a professor that the concept of offering server machines loaded with gEDA and such was a dead issue because of VMware's market share and popularity for avoiding installation time, and just using huge areas of disks

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 08:57:36AM -0600, Jeff VR wrote: Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? I created as well as use one based off of Fedora Core 5. I made it available at the local IEEE meeting last night and 10 copies made there way out the door. Sounds good to me. --

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 02:30:52PM -0500, al davis wrote: On Friday 16 February 2007 09:57, Jeff VR wrote: Is there any interest out there in a VMPlayer Image? What is a VMPlayer Image? I assumed that he meant VMWare Player image. Although, as far as I know, the same image can also be used

Re: gEDA-user: VMPlayer Image

2007-02-16 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 03:14:03PM -0500, al davis wrote: I googled it .. it seems that it relates to some commercial product called VMware, and VMplayer is a cover-crop variant of VMware. What can I do with a VMPlayer Image ... Assuming I have VMPlayer (which I don't) is the image

Re: gEDA-user: Symbol submission

2006-12-18 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 08:51:10AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote: Surely you can type cvs commit? Or cvs ci for the lazy, like me. -- Joshua D. Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/ ___ geda-user mailing list

Re: gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

2006-09-30 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:11:47PM -0500, David Carr wrote: You can actually do without the binary only kernel modules. I use a GPL tool called xc3sprog to program my Xilinx fpga devices. Do a quick google and you'll find it. It only officially supports Spartan 3 devices but I was able to

Re: gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

2006-09-30 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 05:07:19PM -0400, Joshua Boyd wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:11:47PM -0500, David Carr wrote: You can actually do without the binary only kernel modules. I use a GPL tool called xc3sprog to program my Xilinx fpga devices. Do a quick google and you'll find

Re: gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

2006-09-11 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:11:47PM -0500, David Carr wrote: You can actually do without the binary only kernel modules. I use a GPL tool called xc3sprog to program my Xilinx fpga devices. Do a quick google and you'll find it. It only officially supports Spartan 3 devices but I was able to

Re: gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

2006-09-05 Thread Joshua Boyd
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:16:47PM -0400, Darrell Harmon wrote: The Xilinx software is available for a specific version of Redhat Enterprise Linux on x86 machines. I am successfully running it in a 32 bit chroot on my AMD64 box running Debian. The install was not too difficult. Does the