Mail Archives: geda-user/2016/09/04/14:08:23
Dear fellow gEDA users,
pcb-rnd went a long way since I made the initial fork. Many aspects of
the project have changed:
- major new features added (e.g. language-neutral parametric footprints,
embedded scripting)
- major infrastructural elements rewritten (e.g. the new conf system, the
new footprint system, the new plugin system)
- from a one-man show it is becoming a community effort with active users,
testers and contributors; with active IRC channel, mailing list and a lot
of traffic on both.
- from a developer-offer driven process we switched to an user-pull
system: features and ideas are judged by how many active users request
them
- with the more modular code structure we are free to incorporate
strange/controversial features in optional plugins, without having to
worry about interfering with users' needs
- about 1/3 of all codebase new or changed compared to the original forked
material (and the rate is constantly increasing)
All in all, the project is much less of just a "fork of mainline pcb" - it
has became more of an independent pcb editor that happens to share some
code and history with geda/pcb. Our plans for the future is pushing the
project even stronger in this direction.
This change in the image of the project should be reflected on the project
page as well, so I decided to replace the old "what's different compared
to mainline" page with a new, "what is pcb-rnd" page:
http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd
If you think something important is missing from that page, please let me
know.
Thanks to everyone who contributed in any way!
Best regards,
Igor2
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