Re: gEDA: SPICE GUI

[Bill Cox <bill@viasic.com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 02:34, MSWaters wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> For some time I've been looking for a circuit simulator I could use under 
> Linux. After coming across gEDA I found that there was no GUI for the circuit 
> simulator and decided to start writing one myself.
> 
> Please find attached the results of my efforts so far. This is alpha code and 
> so is highly likely to contain bugs. It has been developed over the last 12 
> month and is getting to the point where it has some usable functionality. It 
> is to be released under the GPL but at this stage it has no home on the Web.
> 
> If anyone could provide feedback regarding the software itself and/or a Web
> site it would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> Mike Waters

Hi, Mike.

I see you chose wxWidgets for the GUI development.  I'm interested in
discussing what the right GUI platform should be for new open-source EDA
projects.  Obviously, we've got a grab-bag mix for now, which is OK for
Linux, but it makes Windows and Mac platforms difficult to support, and
it complicates installations.

In particular, Qt seems to have a lot of momentum.  Are there good
reasons to use wxWindows instead?  There are also other efforts under
way, and I'd be interested in hearing about them.  While it's not
realistic, it would be cool if we could all use the same GUI libraries,
and if they were portable...

Bill