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From: "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 04:41:09 -0700
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] is geda dead yet?
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On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 9:43 PM DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
> <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> writes:
> > Well I still use it
>
> I appreciate that there are still some users of these programs, but
> without developers, they will quickly become unusable as distros upgrade
> toolkits and geda starts failing to build.

As someone else suggested I'd accept that it's frozen and look to incorporate
old dependencies that distros may stop supporting.  Since devel is
essentially stopped there's little down-the-road cost to doing it that
way, though
still the up-front work of course.

> Users of gschem and pcb are probably best served by switching to one of
> the forks, like lepton and pcb-rnd, which have active development.

pcb-rnd has added too many  features without enough users or testing to
get them all right and it's sluggish compared to pcb.  It's where I'd
go if forced
but otherwise no.  I don't need pcb to do anything different than it
already does,
as long as it keeps building that's enough.

Britton