X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Recipient: dj AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 13:43:20 +0200 From: "mhx AT iae DOT nl [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Cc: geda-user AT delorie DOT com, DJ Delorie Subject: Re: [geda-user] is geda dead yet? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3e25be6648117d749ad507b57abf9b5e@iae.nl> X-Sender: mhx AT iae DOT nl ClaraMail2-Webmail-AuthUser: mhx AT iae DOT nl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On 2023-10-10 06:37, DJ Delorie wrote: > "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via 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. > > 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. I am also using it, although it is quite difficult to build on Windows/WSL. The SPICE side is my single interest: I only need the schematic entry interface, printing, and the symbol library. -marcel