gEDA-user: Added PCB output to gnetman

[Bill Cox]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 20:26 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
> It is not clear from whats there on sourceforge.  Is it true that the 
> datadraw gui is only for windows right now?  I couldn't even figure out 
> where to begin in building datadraw.  I tried
> 
> cd da
> ./makemake
> make
> 
> which failed.  Haven't tried to figure out why yet.
> 
> Any thought of a port to gtk or motif?
> 
> -Dan

Hi, Dan.

Thanks for trying to build it.  Please let me know why make failed so I
can fix it.  There's very little to the code generator, so it should be
pretty easy to fix the makemake script.

As for porting the GUI, there are a few reasons I haven't bothered.
First, it's hard.  The GUI is 80% of the work in Datadraw.  Personally,
I'm more of an algorithms guy, and less of a GUI guy.  Also, I haven't
needed any new features in the GUI for about 5 years (though I'm looking
forward to adding support for 64-bit values in the data type window).
The code generators change all the time, but it compiles on Linux.
Finally, DataDraw isn't a very popular tool, so I hate to put a lot of
work into it, since it's also very mature, stable, and already does what
I need.

If there were users other than QuickLogic, Synplicity, ViASIC, and
myself, I'd be more interested in upgrading the GUI, but as it is, there
are more important tasks.

Thanks,
Bill