GEDA guys and gals, I have produced an interim/preliminary gEDA Install CD with lots of new stuff on it. It does not have the latest/greatest gEDA/gaf from CVS, but it *does* have the latest gnucap, pcb, Icarus Verilog, gtkwave, and other packages. Also, it has been tested -- and seems to work -- with SuSE-10.0 and FC 5. (Therefore, I figure it should work with eariler versions of these distros too.)
If you are willing to be a guinea pig, please download the CD here: http://www.brorson.com/gEDA/ (bottom of page) and try it out. I am *very* interested in hearing bug reports from folks trying it out. To use it successfully, you need a maximally configured distro. That is, a distro with as many "-devel" packages installed as possible. The trend today is to remove header files, config utilities, and so on from distros in favor of binary applications for "e-mail and document processing for the end-user". Stupid, yes, but that's the reality. Anyway, please try to pick up as many "-devel" packages as you can when you install your distro. Then, when you try the CD, please let me know whether it succeeded or failed for you. I am particularly interested in reports like: "I installed on my FC5 box configured with both development and workstation options selected. The install failed when building foo. Please find my Install.log file attached." I may ask you what packages you have/don't have installed on your distro. This kind of interaction helps me figure out what dependencies are needed on the CD itself. I will either ignore, flame, or challenge you to actually produce a working CD (depending upon my mood) any comments like: "I think intalling from source is dumb, and users should use [apt-get, yum, whatever] to handle dependencies." My goal is to get as close to a major release as possible, in anticipation of Ales's upcoming gEDA/gaf release. Please give this interim CD a trial, and provide me with constructive feedback. Thanks, and happy designing! Stuart _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
