X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Message-ID: <1392654690.2180.52.camel@AMD64X2.fritz.box> Subject: Re: [geda-user] gEDA as alternative for KiCad (for me)? From: Stefan Salewski To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:31:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 16:04 +0100, Michai Ramakers wrote: > Reasons for looking for a KiCad-alternative are subjective, and > basically boil down to KiCad not being mature enough to use in a > production-environment. I think your questions have already been answered in a positive direction by John Doty and Mr gedau. I have to admit that you are the first person I am aware of considering switching from KiCad to gEDA/PCB. My impression is, that kids prefer KiCad over gEDA/PCB in these days -- most still prefer proprietary tools and do much complaining about the free tools. Without doubt you can build fine electronics with gEDA/PCB and related tools, many people have done that. But not all tools may look and work like one expects. You may have noticed that on this mailing list there is not very much activity... Personally I do not really consider switching from gEDA/PCB to KiCad, but at the same time I prefer nice looking and easy to use tools. So in the past I spent some time on a plain schematics editor and an topological autorouter -- both basically work fine but will need still some time to finish. (http://www.ssalewski.de/PetEd.html.en, http://www.ssalewski.de/Router.html.en) If you intend to contribute, you should note that gEDA/PCB is GTK with plain C and guile, while KiCAD is wxWidgets with C++. Best regards, Stefan Salewski