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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:06:12 -0400
From: Gus Fantanas <fantanas AT innocent DOT com>
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Subject: [geda-user] gEDA and Upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04
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A lot has been written on this board recently about the behavior of the 
gEDA version that comes with Ubuntu 12.04.  I am still running Ubuntu 
11.10 and I am thinking of upgrading to 12.10, which will update gEDA as 
well.  I have a couple of questions because some of my projects in my 
professional life depend on gEDA:

(1) How stable is the version of gEDA in the repos of Ubuntu 12.04, 
32-bit and 64-bit?  In this board I've read several reports of PCB 
crashes and bugs (besides the ps-exporting bug).

(2)  Will the newer gEDA (esp.PCB) in the repos of Ubuntu 12.04 
correctly interpret the files of previous versions?  In particular, if 
the older PCB files refer to dimensions in inches/mils by default, will 
those dimensions be interpreted correctly by the newer PCB?

(3) On April 25, Colin Bennett reported that the multiple attribute 
editor of gschem is unusable because it has a 'value' text field of 
zero.  Can this be fixed by setting the LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR environment 
variable to 0 prior to starting gschmem, as explained by Peter Clifton 
on Dec. 12?  (That posting referred to an earlier version of gEDA.)

(4) Does the newest gEDA in the repos of Ubuntu 12.04 handle UTF-8, 
perhaps after setting some LC environment variable?


Thank you in advance for your time.

cf