I take part of the blame. Marvin put the tarballs up in response to my bleating about how GTKWave is unsupported. IIRC, somebody posted a notification on this list several months ago saying that the developers were dropping support for GTKWave. [1] Therefore, Marvin took the initiative and got the latest code (Aug 2005, BTW), contributed some fixes and put the result on the gEDA ftp site.
Here's my suggestion for how to move forward: 1. Marvin or I can contact Tony Bybell, who seems to be the author, and ask him what the status of the code is -- supported, unsupported, about to be dropped, or whatever. 2. If it's unsupported, then it should find a home, and we can adopt it. Personally, I think the source should go to Sourceforge, with Marvin and myself (and whoever else wants to) as admins. Then we can move the tarball over to sf. Alternately, if Marvin's company, or SEUL or some other host wants to host it, that's also fine. 3. If it is supported, then we just need to clarify which version is supported (there's a 1.3.x branch and a 2.0.0 branch). Also, we need to find out where the most up to date source is archived. That's my $0.02. Marvin, do you want to contact Tony, or shall I? Either way is fine with me. Stuart [1] If my memory is faulty (possible) or it was another project which was being orphaned, I apologize. > > [snip] > >I just stuck it up at:=20 > > > >ftp://ftp.geda.seul.org/pub/geda/contrib/ > > > >I've downloaded everything to install gcc R4 and am compiling it. Should=20 > >be finished tonight. > > Okay, what exactly should I do with these tarballs? Are these > official releases or what? I generally don't leave things in contrib > for very long. > > -Ales >
