Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-13 Thread George M. Gallant, Jr.
Not at all. Just to goad you into a further negative rant on how a free product, created by volunteers bothers you. George On 12/13/2010 08:57 PM, timecop wrote: Why do you bother to subscribe to this list? Its obvious that $0.02 is worth more than your opinions. Why do you bother replying? Is

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-13 Thread Anthony Blake
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:23 PM, timecop wrote: > Anyway tl;dr version: RS sucks, DesignSpark sucks, Eagle sucks, buying > a EDA suite to pimp to your customers as the only benefit of your > shitty stock/price practice = stupid. > > Also any designer too lazy to make symbols/footprints for a new p

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-13 Thread timecop
> Why do you bother to subscribe to this list? Its obvious that $0.02 is > worth more than your opinions. Why do you bother replying? Is it to show you agree or disagree? ___ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/m

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-13 Thread George M. Gallant, Jr.
On 12/13/2010 08:23 PM, timecop wrote: Another option, that may not be acceptable to all, is that in the UK RS& Farnell both recently acquired small PCB development companies(DesignSpark& eagle respectively). The intention being the companies adopt the free tool which integrates easily with

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Paddock
> It won't be perfect until its compilable by VStudio IDE and debuggable > inside it as such. > As long as GCC is involved in any equation of building software for > Windows, no developer (who is actually paid to develop Windows > software) is going to even touch it. I look forward to trying your

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-13 Thread timecop
> I've been poking at 'the perfect windows version' for some time, will > give up on that for now. It won't be perfect until its compilable by VStudio IDE and debuggable inside it as such. As long as GCC is involved in any equation of building software for Windows, no developer (who is actually pa

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-13 Thread timecop
>  Another option, that may not be acceptable to all, is that in the UK > RS & Farnell both recently acquired small PCB development > companies(DesignSpark & eagle respectively).  The intention being the > companies adopt the free tool which integrates easily with their > catalogue and then buy mor

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-13 Thread DJ Delorie
> Is there any step by step guide to get a new HID up and running 1. Copy the "nohid" hid. Hard-code a drawing surface and zoom values, work on getting the pcb drawn correctly *at all*. 2. add in code for zooming, scrolling, flipping, etc. 3. Add in menus and shortcuts. 4. Add in all the o

Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Paddock
>> If you switch to gEDA, will you want a native windows build?  Help with that >> from anyone who is up on windows is on the wanted list. I've been poking at 'the perfect windows version' for some time, will give up on that for now. I think I just make basic canvas and figure how to to get the ba

Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

2010-12-13 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:28:25 +0100 Armin Faltl wrote: > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > There is a difference: The rendering happens on footprint creation > > time. It is irreversible, meaning, the text cannot be edited after > > the fact. > I think I got you now: you want to place one footprint per

Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

2010-12-13 Thread Armin Faltl
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: There is a difference: The rendering happens on footprint creation time. It is irreversible, meaning, the text cannot be edited after the fact. I think I got you now: you want to place one footprint per character or generate a footprint, that displays your text - befor

Re: gEDA-user: Blogging about gEDA development

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 15:31 +, Peter Clifton wrote: > > ps: "Comments on this blog are restricted to team members." > > not really in favor of crowd-sourcing spirit ;) > > I'm not sure when I set that - and "team members" seems odd. I've switched comments on for OpenID authenticated users. -

Re: gEDA-user: Blogging about gEDA development

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 11:15 +0100, Stefan Tauner wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:43:19 + > Peter Clifton wrote: > > > http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2010/12/geda-development.html > > > "I hate SourceForge" - Ok, that one was just me! > > no you are not! > slow, paralyzing, unusable. > > launchp

Re: gEDA-user: Blogging about gEDA development

2010-12-13 Thread Stefan Tauner
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:43:19 + Peter Clifton wrote: > http://pcjc2.blogspot.com/2010/12/geda-development.html > "I hate SourceForge" - Ok, that one was just me! no you are not! slow, paralyzing, unusable. launchpad has some issues too, but imho it would be a good choice. ps: "Comments on

Re: gEDA-user: Text in PCB elements

2010-12-13 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Armin Faltl wrote: >> The GUI might look up >> letters as footprints in the library and arrange them to yield >> human readable text. > This sounds like recursive call of footprints to me No. In this scenario, the footprints do not contain real, editable text. What looks like text to humans is j

Re: gEDA-user: FUNDING

2010-12-13 Thread andrew whyte
Hi Everyone, I realise that I am joining a very established thread, but I'd like to put forward 2 cents worth. Please don't be offended if what I'm saying isn't the same as your opinion. I have used gEDA as the main (but not only) tool for EDA in my company for two and a half years, I don't ful