>>> Just curious, but how many people use xgsch2pcb presently? I am interested >>> in hearing your reasons for either using it or not using it. >> >> *Chuckle* >> >> It crashes whenever I try to use it. :-( > > Appologies if you've sent me details before, if so I've forgotten. If > you could provide command line output from the crash, or symptoms, that > would he helpful.
Nah, don't worry too much about it. First, I tend to use older boxen since they expose stuff like this. I'm currently running SuSE 9.3. ISTR the crashes having to do with DBUS problems, probably because the implementation is out of date, or is misconfigured (my fault). Second, I don't think I ever filed a bug report with you. Therefore, you needn't apologize. I guess I should grab the latest and give it another spin & get you some bug info...... [snip!] > I often use it (eat the dogfood) if I'm designing a board. It also helps > when I have to demo it for students to use. Very smart. >> Actually, Kicad may be the logical tool for those users since it runs >> on both Windoze and Linux. However, I am under the impression that >> Kicad can be buggy and quirky. It is also limited in its power. In >> fairness, I haven't fiddled with it for a couple of years, so it may >> be better now. > > It doesn't look bad, we can't be complacent. gEDA can be "quirky" too ;) True. I agree that we should do more to improve the user experience. Hence my interest in pushing a project manager. I've watched the user community over at Kicad grow rapidly over the last 1 1/2 years. Bully for them. The lessons to be drawn from that: * Operation on Windoze expands your audience by about 10x. * It also enlarges the number of totally clueless fools who clog up your e-mail list. But not by 10x, rather by only 2 or 3x. * I often see Kicad users ask for features like gEDA has. That means that gEDA is the leader. However, we can't be complacent, since their community is now much larger than ours. * We should stick to our knitting: gEDA should remain a collection of power tools which users can adapt into any workflow they want. Kicad exists for the rank newbie. Our attraction is power, flexibility, and scalability. Hopefully...... Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
