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On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> No Igor, it wasn't you I was thinking of...

Then sorry for implying that. Just looked at my DEC VT420 still sitting 2 
meters away from me ;)

> I didn't want to call anyone out by name, but if you recall - there
> was an individual who forked gEDA, and ported to a text-mode schematic
> entry system... (no problem with that - especially given it worked for
> him). I can't recall whether it was genuinely a PDP-10 he was running,
> but I do recall being impressed by the level of retro-computing at the
> time.
>
> I think he called the fork uEDA? I regret not having tried it, as the
> concept actually had a lot of charm for certain types of circuit
> (ironically - probably more so with more modern designs that have more
> plumbing, and less analogue electronics!).

Now that you say, I have some faint memories of this. Unfortunately I 
didn't try it either. Found a reference in the archives from 2007, good 
old times :)

>
> I am sorry you had to fork to keep what you wanted within PCB..
> (despite the OpenGL bits, it all should have kept working when
> configured with --disable-gl, I have tried hard to avoid forcing
> OpenGL onto everyone - as the driver support has only recently got to
> be pretty ubiquitous). We lost out on your development talent when you
> forked, which is a shame - since you are one of the talented ones.

--disable-gl worked well! For a long time I didn't even have a fork, just 
my own debian package compiled with --disable-gl. Then I had some patch 
for something small, can't even remember what it was. But I tried to 
resist making bigger changes. Then after a while I had to admit if I have 
my own package and even my own patches I should just admit that I have a 
fork and make it properly (different name, VCS, web page, releases)

I don't think I'm that talented (but thanks!), and I defiently don't think 
anyone lost anything with this deal. I just realized that after about 
2010 my needs didn't really converge with the PCB user community's needs.

>
> FWIW, My "branch" with the later OpenGl stuff, and 3D support is way
> more like a fork now, than I'd ever intended it to become. The
> intention is to merge it, but the blocking problems regarding
> data-structure and file-format additions have still not been resolved,
> and my free time has (in complete generality) been reduced a lot.

I'm sorry to hear that.