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Subject: [geda-user] [poll] is anyone still using xgsch2pcb? 
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Hi all,

poll time; please answer each question with YES, NO or N/A.

1. have you ever tried xgsch2pcb?


2. do you use xgch2pcb?


3. do you plan to use any sort of graphical project manager in the future, 
such as xgsch2pcb or easyspice or genxproj? (please watch 
https://archive.org/details/genxproj-prealpha before answering this one)


4. if the answer is YES to 3, would you use it for schematics->PCB->gerber
flow? (Please answer yes only if you mean actually installing and using a 
tool in practice, not just in theory)


5. if the answer is YES to 3, would you use it for schematics->sim or 
schematics->DRC or schematics->bom or any other shcematics->* flow? 
(Please answer yes only if you mean actually installing and using a
tool in practice, not just in theory)




Background/why I ask:

I am going to roll a stable release of genxproj later this summer. It's a 
generic project manager, a superset of xgsch2pcb. It doesn't use dbus to 
communicate to the tools. Pcb-rnd still has optional support for dbus. I'd 
be more happy if I could get rid of it. AFAIK dbus in pcb (or pcb-rnd) 
is used only by xgsch2pcb. Before I decide about the removal, I want to 
have some data about how many of you use it.


TIA,

Igor2