gEDA-dev: GSoC 2008

[Peter TB Brett]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 08:45:16 Bert Timmerman wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> Will you please apply/register with GSoC 2008 __in time__ with whatever
> project you choose :)
>
> And did you have contact with your mentor for the IPC footprintgenerator
> project, DJ would be a first choice for PCB.
>
> I would not worry too much about a copy of the IPC specification for
> now, we will find one when the need is there.
>
> USD 100 used to be a lot of money for us Europeans, and that is some
> time ago :)
>
> I do not mind if you use pcb-fpw tarball as a starting point for your
> project, it's GPL'ed free software after all.
>
> Anyway for your GSoC project I suppose you probably will start from
> scratch.
>
> OTOH, I would be most willing to keep contributing to whatever is chosen
> as a GUI-driven footprintwizard or generator to be included in the main
> development of pcb.
>
> Or "we" (the gEDA-pcb community) could decide to keep it a stand-alone
> application which can communicate over IPC, or files, with pcb.
>

Note that a standalone application which uses PCB's DBUS interface might work 
well, and could easily be written in PyGTK (see xgsch2pcb source code for 
example).

                                Peter



-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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