gEDA-dev: Liquid PCB

[Ales Hvezda]

[snip]
>I saw the following on the wxWigets list today.  I  don't know
>any more about it other than the screen shots at the web
>site looked interesting.  gEDA/PCB is mentioned as
>to why he created Liquid PCB.  Don't kill the messenger...;-)

Thanks for the pointer.

I didn't see a place to download it (I did find a zip in the repo though).
Source code is interesting to poke through (after removing all the ^M's).

It's also for w32 right now (though using wxWidgets; which means it will
probably eventually run everywhere) and _requires_ OpenGL.  How how many
people here (non-developers especially) have setup hardware accelerated
OpenGL on their boxes?

There are hints that it uses/will use Lua its/the (?) scripting language.

Also, freshmeat claims it is:

Free To Use But Restricted,  OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)

not sure what that means (most GPL projects don't list both of those).
But the sf page lists:

License : GNU General Public License (GPL)

The UI is interesting too.  I would have to play with it to see if it is
as/more efficient than left hand -> keyboard, right hand -> mouse approach
that works so darn well (if you spend the time to learn the hotkeys).

Either way, neat.

-Ales