Moin,
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:10:11 +0100
"Reimar Döffinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 04:38:31PM -0600, John Griessen wrote:
> [...]
> > [jg]Probably better to get ISE webpack: "ISE WebPACK is the industry´s
> > only FREE, fully featured front-to-back FPGA design solution for Linux,
> > Windows XP, and Windows Vista") skip a windows 98-b install...
>
> They forgot this part though: "(though the parser and many other parts
> are on the technological level of ten years ago)".
> Seriously, the last time I saw a compiler that was as bad as xst on
> providing correct error messages esp. on syntax errors was on the C64.
At least the Webpack comes for free. I had once to use a
certain comercial synthesis tool starting with "S" that was
not one bit better than the Webpack. Beside the totaly
incomprehensible error messages, i hit a bug somewhere
in this *beeep* which i had to either work around (if i
could figure out what it caused) or rely on the support
which took each time a week just to acknowledge that i've
send them a mail with a bugreport.
Considering what that PoS costs (at least 5 figures _per_year_
for a single user license), i was astonished that people accept
that level of quality of software and support.
It is really time that we replace those comercial packages
with something OSS... then we can at least fix the bugs
ourselves.
Attila Kinali
--
Praised are the Fountains of Shelieth, the silver harp of the waters,
But blest in my name forever this stream that stanched my thirst!
-- Deed of Morred
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