Re: gEDA: Re: Patches for PCB automake/autoconf system

[Piotr Miarecki <tertul@poczta.onet.pl>]

Hi Stuart and All,

at first - I compromize everything if you only agree to work together on gEDA installer/setup, including Python. The only condition is that every step should carry a new functionality, not rewriting the existing code nor writing everything from scratch.

Majority of gEDA tools are one-person-projects. If a developer has no time for gEDA, temporarily or permanently, the tool is not maintained. A good example was setup and gmanager during past time. If you look into setup.cfg you see that it supported pcb, gwave, gtkwave and other tools - but in old, obsoleted versions. Because during past three years I had only few time for gEDA. 

If you start a new installer project - this is what probably happens with your installer in the future as well. I propose that we cooperate. There are many features missing: updating support for non-gaf tools, porting to windows, creating a tool for creating setup.cfg, supporting APT/RPM(/PKG) databases, etc. 

Answering your questions:
* setup HAS BEEN designed using glade, take a look into CVS: ~/glade/setup/setup.glade,
* setup does support ALL gEDA tools (now in obsoleted versions, it needs to be updated),
* setup is written in C, yes, because imo its a gaf standard, as well as guile should be used for scripting (imo it means also: not python, perl, etc.) - but this is a subject that should be separately discussed with Ales.

BTW - if setup crashes, let me know when and how.


Piotr Miarecki
tertul@poczta.onet.pl