every time i see valerio’s name, i’m reminded of the scene from night at the roxbury referencing emilio estevez
i don’t know why it comes to mind, nor why i felt this was worth sharing, but whatever. Thanks, Gagan > On Jan 27, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev > <macports-dev@lists.macports.org> wrote: > > Valerio, thanks for that reference. Lepton-eda looks like a nice successor > to gEDA, and a good candidate for a new port. > > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 10:25 AM Valerio Messina via macports-dev > <macports-dev@lists.macports.org <mailto:macports-dev@lists.macports.org>> > wrote: > domain was http://www.geda-project.org/ <http://www.geda-project.org/> > see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA> > seems payd till October 2024 but now is down > > gEDA development has always been with the main focus on Linux and have > never cared about macOS and Windows. > In recent years, competition from KiCad (which is madly actively > developed cross platform by CERN and is still GPL) I think has killed > the development of gEDA. The only exception is GerbV which is still > maintained and is quite up to date for Linux and Windows, but not for macOS: > https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv <https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv> > > In reality GerbV has always been the only program in the package to > compile correctly for Windows, I generated it annually for Linux and > Windows colleagues, and due to its ease I still find it superior to the > one integrated into KiCad, even if it does not support the Gerber X2 > standard is become obsolete. > > > Take a look to Lepton: > https://github.com/lepton-eda/lepton-eda > <https://github.com/lepton-eda/lepton-eda> > seems mantained > > Valerio > > > On 1/27/24 1:46 PM, Nils Breunese wrote: > > I’m not familiar with gEDA, but according to > > https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/science/geda-gaf/Portfile > > > > <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/science/geda-gaf/Portfile> > > the homepage is http://www.geda-project.org/ <http://www.geda-project.org/> > > > > But requests to both the .com and the .org domains indeed fail for me. > > > > Nils. > > > >> Op 26 jan 2024, om 03:37 heeft Mark Anderson <m...@macports.org > >> <mailto:m...@macports.org>> het volgende geschreven: > >> > >> I've been having trouble getting to http://www.geda-project.com/ > >> <http://www.geda-project.com/> - anyone else? This doesn't bode well for > >> the project / Portfile. It might be time to retire it, or mark it as > >> deprecated. > >> > >> —Mark
