Stefan Salewski wrote: > KiCAD: I was asked about it some days ago, here it is > >> I know KiCAD, but I have never used it myself yet. >> When I started with free EDA tools 4 years ago gEDA was looking more >> "professional", so I chose gEDA/PCB. But KiCad and gEDA have make >> progress since that time. So I think KiCad can be used for production >> work now. >> >> The main difference is, that KiCAD is available for Windows too, and >> that KiCad is more integrated. Some people like this integration very
Just as a note, the last several pcb releases have included windows binary installers. As far as I know, the limitations of pcb under windows is some of the m4lib -> newlib converted footprints had a naming conflict so a few footprints are missing and also since windows doesn't support printing postscript with lpr, we don't have a direct printing path (have to print to postscript and convert to pdf or something) under windows. The sourceforge logs actually show *more* (by a lot) downloads of the windows installer than the source code. There could be a number of different factors as to why that is and could lead to a number of different conclusions. I think about the only safe conclusion is that a moderately large number of windows users were interested enough to download it. -Dan _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user