Hi All, I hope this doesn't result in a "ours/theirs" kind of situation/stale-mate/source-tree-multiplication-all-over-the-internet/flame- war.
DJ Delories HID-approach could result in a win/win situation, and there would be no lusers in the end (probably). The GUI in Athena/GTK/Tcl/M$ Windows/.../"whatever toolkit" hooked up to the same "PCB-engine". Maybe it's time to split up development (different GUI-teams and _one_ single "engine"-team) in the further development of PCB, and form aforementioned teams. Have a look at http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item.jhtml?id=4870&t=strategy to see who is not at the bargaining table. Just my "user"-point of view. Kind regards, Bert Timmerman. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Karel Kulhavy Sent: maandag 31 oktober 2005 10:38 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gEDA: PCB fork to operate under the Tcl/Tk interpreter On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 04:25:11PM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote: > Are any of the PCB developers (DJ, Dan, Harry) aware of this: > > http://opencircuitdesign.com/pcb/ This is a proof that the "STFW" (Search The Fucking Web) is a fundamentally broken concept. If a user does SFTW("pcb"), he gets random homepage from these three: http://opencircuitdesign.com/pcb/ http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/ http://pcb.sourceforge.net/ They have different content so the "pcb" the user finds this way is every time completely different. This already happened to me in the past. The first PCB version I tried to work with was very obsolete one from http://bach.ece.jhu.edu/~haceaton/pcb/ which was almost impossible to make work. I lost very many hours on these futile attempts before I was told on mailing list that there is another homepage. This shows that it's necessary to have every project's boundaries shraply defined and all arguments about google are irrelevant. Two of the homepages should be erased or renamed to different project names. Doesn't GPL require the derived program to be called differently unless the creator gets permission for calling it the same? CL< > > >From the webpage: > > PCB 3.0 is a branch of the source code modified to operate under the > Tcl/Tk interpreter. Most of the coding for PCB 3.0 was done at > MultiGiG, Inc., Scotts Valley, California, by Tim Edwards, Paramesh > Santanam, and (working from India, courtesy of SynApps, Inc.), Nishit > Patel. The code base is a departure from the original PCB in that a > complete Tcl command-line API was concocted for PCB, and the GUI > re-written as a Tk script. For the first cut (version 3.0), a fair bit > of effort went to ensuring that the GUI looks and acts as much like > the original Xlib-based version. > > Any thoughts about how to merge this with gPCB? > > Stuart
