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

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Clifton
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 09:48 +0100, Peter Baxendale wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 23:38 -0400, al davis wrote: > > The development snapshot has problems with plugins on mingw. It > > compiles, but supposedly the plugins don't work. I don't have > > a machine to test it on, so if someone wants t

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

2007-05-14 Thread Peter Baxendale
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 23:38 -0400, al davis wrote: > The development snapshot has problems with plugins on mingw. It > compiles, but supposedly the plugins don't work. I don't have > a machine to test it on, so if someone wants to help, I would > really appreciate it. I think the fix should b

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

2007-05-11 Thread Stefan Salewski
Am Freitag, den 11.05.2007, 00:07 + schrieb Kai-Martin Knaak: > [...] > Both wikipedia articles are in poor shape and need to be enhanced. Why > don't you grab your keyboard and start editing the article? Because: 1. I am only an occasional user of a few gEDA programs, but not a gEDA expert

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

2007-05-11 Thread Dan McMahill
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: 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? actually, the CD is for linux on intel only. But

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: 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