gEDA-dev: [Re: is all EDA as bad as gEDA/pcb?]

[Dan McMahill]

Peter TB Brett wrote:
> On Sunday 09 December 2007 06:01:54 Ben Jackson wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:58:06AM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>> I would drop autoscroll too.
>>> Note that I didn't add that to the lesstif HID :-)
>> You know, the problem with the GTK hid is that it's prettier but
>> not as well maintained as the Lesstif hid.  I tried it first before
>> I found out that "nobody" uses it.  I think we either need to fix it
>> up or at least warn package maintainers that it's not the preferred
>> HID, no matter how gnome-y your distro is.
>>
> 
> I use it.  Or rather, I would use it, if it worked.  As it stands, the joint 
> facts that I can't stand lesstif (sorry) and that the GTK HID gets broken 
> (again) on a weekly basis just means that I don't feel motivated to use or 
> fix PCB.
> 
> A year ago, the GTK HID worked, and worked well.  I used it to develop quite a 
> complicated board, and was happy about it.  For the last 12 months, it seems 
> like every time I've tried to even *build* PCB with the GTK HID I've run into 
> problems.

Sounds like perhaps I need to get an autobuild system going again.  Then 
I can spam everyone with build failures and warnings!  I was actually in 
the process of setting that up again when my ultra/10 died completely. 
Unfortunately that was my main machine and was also the only box that 
both had a video card and was compatible with my monitor..   So now I'm 
sending this from a stupid pc with stupid "I need 800 Mb to even boot 
up" vista on it until I have time to download and install a real os on 
the new computer.