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From: "karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] is geda dead yet?
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DJ Delorie:
> "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.

For some time I have had problems building gschem.

I could co-maintain core and lesstif hid pcb parts and supporting
programs.

> 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.

lepton and pcb-rnd are good alternatives.

My critisism of pcb-rnd is that the files becomes very large compared
to pcb files, which makes it burdensome to manually go into the
files and verify and debug the programs you might write generating
pcb-rnd file format; and yes, it is mostly a me problem.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar