Actually now that I look at Lepton - it looks like the spiritual successor of gEDA and maybe a good candidate for a replacement port - because unless geda-project.com starts resolving real soon, it's pretty much a dead port. We could point at a copy I have, but that seems like a bad idea.
—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 7:41 PM Mark Anderson <m...@macports.org> wrote: > 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 >>> >>