Yeah - that's what I've been afraid of - I've been the maintainer for a while, but even I don't use it that much anymore - and was wondering if it was completely dead or had any life at all. It's macOS performance had been slipping as well.
I know gerbv/pcb/gtkwave have all kept up which is good - but it might be time to deprecate the geda-gaf port and focus on other EDA stuff that has been popping up, like Klayout, and the 130 nm open source PDK, and OpenRoad/Lane. I always had a soft spot for gEDA since it was kinda a knockoff of Cadence which is how I got my chip design start, but it might be time to move on. —Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <m...@macports.org> MacPorts Trac WikiPage <https://trac.macports.org/wiki/mark> GitHub Profile <https://github.com/markemer> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 7:00 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> wrote: > >> domain was http://www.geda-project.org/ >> see: 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 >> >> 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 >> 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 >> the homepage is 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> het >> volgende geschreven: >> >> >> >> I've been having trouble getting to 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 >> >