X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:18:02 +0100 (CET) X-X-Sender: igor2 AT igor2priv To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Debug: to=geda-user AT delorie DOT com from="gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu" From: gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu Subject: [geda-user] [pcb] archeology - gEDA/pcb history with illustration and old versions you can run on your modern Linux Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (DEB 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Hi all, we have reached significant mile stones in 2016 and 2017: - pcb mainline release 4.0.0; - pcb-rnd own file format for boards and finally the refactoring for a more universal internal data model; - pcb-rnd got an official Debian package; I think this is a good moment to celebrate these achievements with a tribute pack (URL at the bottom). While doing the "test old files with the new loader" project in early December I figured I get the files with the source code. I also found that with minor modifications I could get the sources to run on my desktop. Then looking at the code I realized how much of the 90s code we still have with us in current versions, with minor modifications. It's fascinating to see how different ages layered over and over. There was also some confusion on the mailing list about versions, and I was unsure about 2.0 and 3.0.0 for a long time too. So I decided to dig up many old versions, compile them and to contact previous developers and collect their memories from the earlier phases of the project. I've started to build a tribute pack back in mid December and now it is ready to be released. The design of the page is similar to the old, Xaw versions of pcb from before the gtk/lesstif transition. web: http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-history vcs: svn://repo.hu/pcb-history/trunk Thanks to everyone who contributed to the project during its 26 years history! Regards, Igor2 P.S. Depending on demand, I may try to expand the pack. If you have anything to contribute, please contact me.