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On Fri, 4 May 2012 09:30:47 +0400
Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> Hello, Jerome.
> 
> It is a long standing todo of gEDA Project
> (http://wiki.geda-project.org/pcb-projects) proposed by Stuart
> Brorson in 2008 as I can see from wiki history.
> 
> The problem is that gEDA project is orphaned and abandoned by most
> original main developers and those, who are still working on
> gEDA, are very busy now and cannot support all proposed projects.

That is a rather misleading statement, and unfair to the developers.
Really, how many Free Software projects' developers will implement
immediately every proposed feature?  Developers of Free Software
add features as they feel the desire to do so, or out of the
kindness of their hearts for other people that want them.

Actually, there have been MANY great improvements to the gEDA
project in the past year or two. For instance, just off the top of
my head, the following massive improvements in the last releases:

- Antialiased graphics in gschem with Cairo engine

- OpenGL support in pcb

- pcb “Import Schematics” feature for integrated forward-annotation
  (this is REALLY a big improvement over gsch2pcb
  especially because when footprints are changed, they
  automatically update in-place in the board layout)

- pcb native metric units with nanometer precision

And there are tons more improvements available in the
development line that will appear in the next release.

Of course I still wish for some other features that gEDA still
lacks, but as with all Free Software projects, you get MUCH MORE
than you pay for.  And the developers slowly but steadily improve
gEDA, and it continues to be an extremely flexible and powerful
tool, that in my opinion simply can't be beat.

Regards,
Colin

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