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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] is geda dead yet?
Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 2023 11:03:11 +0100
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On 10 Oct 2023, at 04:35, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> No significant commits in years.
> No releases in years.

There’s some dotty old chap on this list who would consider that a feature. :P

Seriously though, I love the idea, the principle, of geda which I think can be summed up by its use of a plain text, tool agnostic file format.  Geda’s achilles heel (IMHO) is its reliance on Guile/Scheme, which is obtuse and unmanageable at best — I think the majority of messages I’ve seen on this list in recent history have been from people struggling to get going due to Guile.

Some years ago now I started a re-development of geda from the ground up, and I was very well advanced in that project before I canned it.  The final ’nail in the coffin’ for geda, and the reason that I canned my own effort, was KiCAD’s switch to a plain text S-expression file format.  KiCAD now ticks every box for me that geda once did, in addition to being actively developed, supported and working out-of-the-box on multiple platforms.  I can use each of the KiCAD tools in a non-PCB, workflow agnostic manner if I need to, just as I did with geda.

So, yes, sadly geda is dead to me.

Regards,
Chris
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Chris Smith <space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com>

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