On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:11:09AM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: > On Saturday 29 January 2005 09:32 am, Xtian Xultz wrote: > > > > "Manual routing only." > > > (http://opencollector.org/collector.php) > > > > > > This is IMHO wrong. PCB has autorouting too. > > > I never used auto routing in any EDA software > > I think the point is that many people discount PCB because they do not know > it has all of the features that it does. They Google for 'pcb' find the home > page, it is the first hit in Google, with the ancient 1.63 version give it a > try, get frustrated then move on to something else like Eagle, or worse get > scared off because the page talks about patches, GLIBC etc. Yes I know it > says "The Latest PCB stuff on sourceforge" at the top but people don't always > read that... Even the pcb.sf.net page might turn off a lot of people because > it does not mention that PCB works on Windows, via Cygwin.
actually thats not true: http://pcb.sourceforge.net/faq.html#windows I will concede that it does give some disclaimers about how well it may or may not work on cygwin though. -Dan --
