Just a couple of comments. [ ... snip! ... ] > In my opinion, the geda project manager was a step in the right > direction to keeping everything in a GUI format. What would be an even > better setup though, would be something that appeared to be a seemless > blend of gschem and pcb. Something that did not require the user to > drop to the command line and run any scripts or helper apps between > gschem, pcb, and spice simulations. > > Is it possible to embed gschem and pcb as tabs in a larger geda project > manager? And then when selecting back and forth between gschem and pcb > tabs, the backend netlist conversions take place to convert the output > of one program to the input of the other? I'm a relatively competant > programmer, but I have no idea how GUI stuff works, I work strictly on > back end stuff and hardware programming.
I completely agree that the "geda" project manager would be a nice thing for newbies who don't want to drop to teh command line to run various apps. Unfortunately, it hasn't been developed for a while now. Its developer has abandoned it. I suggest that getting it into shape, so that it works with teh contemporary versions of gschem, gattrib, spice-sdb, GSpiceUI, gsch2pcb, PCB, and so on would make a fine undergrad research project, or even a CS thesis topic. It would also make a nice hobby project for somebody. As it is, the main gEDA developers (me too!) all have day jobs and other responsibilities. That's why geda is not being developed. It would be great if somebody with energy were to pick it up and run with it. I figure that the first thing one could do is simply look through the program and write some notes about how it works, or perhaps create a drawing of the main datastructures of the program. Stuart
