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On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote:

[snip]

> Pcb is struggling from the lack of a foundation. I think geda-gaf would be much more popular if there was a good free/open layout program to export to. If KiCAD ever documents their netlist format?

There is a way to use gschem to produce KiCAD-compatible netlists: see
 	http://www.gedasymbols.org/user/frank_miles/

This uses an older KiCAD netlist format - but it works.

{I used to use "PCB" but got bit by its incomplete DRC}

 	-Frank