gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 10 May 2007 23:38:36 -0400, al davis wrote: >> At my university >> day-job the absence of a windows version is a major obstacle to move >> from eagle to geda. > > That's sad. Any university that is exclusively windows is doing a grave > disservice to the students. The institution does

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread al davis
On Friday 11 May 2007, DJ Delorie wrote: > My point is that the gEDA suite does not include *any* > pre-built binaries.  Thus, a lack of a "binary installer" for > Windows means nothing.  The CD does not include Linux > binaries, but we certainly support Linux.  You have to build > for *all* platfo

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> > (1) There is no Solaris binary either, but you claim we should say we > >support that. > > Does that mean, that the gEDA Suite CD will not run on a solaris machine? My point is that the gEDA suite does not include *any* pre-built binaries. Thus, a lack of a "binary installer" for Windo

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Dave McGuire
On May 11, 2007, at 12:06 AM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: (1) There is no Solaris binary either, but you claim we should say we support that. Does that mean, that the gEDA Suite CD will not run on a solaris machine? I run it under Solaris all the time.. -Dave -- Dave McGuire Port C

gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 10 May 2007 23:27:08 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > (1) There is no Solaris binary either, but you claim we should say we >support that. Does that mean, that the gEDA Suite CD will not run on a solaris machine? > (2) PCB *does* include scripts to build under Windows (mingw). Heck, >

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread al davis
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > At my university > day-job the absence of a windows version is a major obstacle > to move from eagle to geda. That's sad. Any university that is exclusively windows is doing a grave disservice to the students. > The amount of > programming/tu

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> There is no windows binary to download and no installer to compile from > source on a windows machine either. (1) There is no Solaris binary either, but you claim we should say we support that. (2) PCB *does* include scripts to build under Windows (mingw). Heck, there's a toplevel "

gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 10 May 2007 21:18:46 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Er, gEDA and PCB both run under Windows. It's not easy, but it's > possible. There is no windows binary to download and no installer to compile from source on a windows machine either. To the vast majority of computer users, including me

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Ales Hvezda
Hi, [snip] >What do you think about this? Yeah, it would be nice if the de version was in sync with the en version. -Ales ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org ht

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> Yup, gEDA/gaf can be built using mingw (native) as well (and > of course cygwin). It is just that there are no installers > available for the mingw port; you have to figure out setting up the > build environment and do then do the build. PCB uses an open source windows installer, if you'

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Ales Hvezda
[snip] >PCB uses mingw - no cygwin, no virtual machine. I don't know about >geda, but there are native gtk ports to Windows, so no reason why it >wouldn't work that way. Yup, gEDA/gaf can be built using mingw (native) as well (and of course cygwin). It is just that there are no installer

Re: gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread DJ Delorie
> > There is one big difference: In german description reader is told > > that gEDA is for Windows too, and example picture is taken from > > running gschem on Windows (or is this a fake?) > > This is plain wrong. Er, gEDA and PCB both run under Windows. It's not easy, but it's possible. > >

gEDA-user: Re: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Thu, 10 May 2007 19:22:50 +0200, Stefan Salewski wrote: > There is one big difference: In german description reader is told that > gEDA is for Windows too, and example picture is taken from running > gschem on Windows (or is this a fake?) This is plain wrong. > I think it should be stated th

Re: gEDA-user: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Stuart Brorson
I see no reason to not make the changes you describe. Go for it! I think it should be stated that gEDA is basically a Unix/Linux/GNU application, but that it may be possible to run it on windows? This is true, but a windoze build does require some effort. Maybe mention that certain developer

gEDA-user: gEDA in wikipedia (englisch/german)

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan Salewski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geda http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA Hello, I think the description of gEDA in German version of wikipedia is not very good. Should we replace it with a translation of the englisch one? There is one big difference: In german description reader is told that gEDA is

Re: gEDA-user: Re: Installing in Debain. Nothing (at all) works

2007-05-10 Thread Svenn Are Bjerkem
On 5/9/07, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For completeness: The reason nothing works is because the debian geda package doesn't include all the pieces. It works now. Although I can't figure out how to export a netlist You don't export a netlist from gschem. You use gnetlist on the sc

Re: gEDA-user: gschem cvs repo issue FC6

2007-05-10 Thread Peter Baxendale
Yes, I do that on my desktop with all the packages, especially pcb. I couldn't be bothered on my laptop, which I rarely use for real work of this type. This way I can have 2 different versions going at the same time and get myself really confused (not hard). On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 16:44 -0500, Crai