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Peter Clifton wrote:

> It will come... We have often encountered problems keeping up with
> porting to new GUILE versions, and it won't be forever away before
> GTK2.0 is less common pre-installed on distros.

Quick reminder: 
My efforts to cross-compile geda for windows still fail because the 
guile.exe binary just exits. It does so both in wine and in Microsoft 
windows. And yes, I did try Victors latest version of minipack as well as 
mxe. So the latest windows version of geda gaf remains to be the last 
which did not depend on guile 1.8. IIRC, this was in 2010.

In addition, with regular linux the gschem-takes-a-nap bug is still 
lingering in the background. When exposed by the the autonumber hook, 
guiles garbage collection confiscates 100% of a quad core processor for 
anything between 5 seconds and three minutes.

I sort of gave up on both issues about three months ago. Will gladly check 
again if there was a change which might have them fixed. 


> I think you often confuse my thoughts on better "integration" or
> better "interoperability" with producing an all-in-one closed
> tool-chain like KiCAD.

Is kicad really that all that tightly integrated? I got the impression, 
just like geda it comes with separate modules for schematic capture and 
layout. ("eeschema" and "pcbnew"). There is of course a project managing 
GUI called "kicad". But you can run the components standalone just like 
you do in geda. And just like in geda you don't have cross selection and 
bacvk annotation available in this mode.

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