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and a development snapshot.  That particular snapshot is a 0.35 release
candidate, so it should be close enough to not give you trouble, but it
is worthy of note that it too is in need of maintenance.

We do have a problem with the glue associated with simulation.  Our
simulation itself is quite strong, but it doesn't look that way because
of the glue problems.  There were several Google-SOC proposals to do
something about it, but none of them were funded.  There have also been
other proposals to do something about it, but none resulted in any
action.

We do need a serious viewer for analog simulation data.  The best we
have is gwave, which has compiling issues, and it still does only
waves.  "gtkwave" does not do analog in a reasonable way, or handle any
file format used by any analog simulator.

We also need to work on translation issues.  Only a small subset of what
can be on a schematic is properly translated.  On another side, we have
everything in place to do signal integrity simulations of layouts,
except the translator.

Gnucap needs a decent tutorial.  In the last year, I put it off to
concentrate on plugin code instead, which could totally change it.  Now
that the plugin system is mostly working, I expect to do a real
tutorial to be part of the next stable release.

So, this is a plea for help in two areas ...

1. Help with the simulation glue.

2. The Mandriva packages.

Any takers?