Re: Exportability of EDA industry from North America?

From: Stuart Brorson (sdb_at_cloud9.net)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:13:16 -0000

In sci.electronics.cad Chuck Harris <cf-NO-SPAM-harris@erols.com> wrote:

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: Problems/complaints:

: 1) I don't like to see LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PKG_CONFIG_PATH globally set.
: They provide a capability for testing new versions of system libraries.
: I don't believe they were intended to be used system wide. For that
: you should add the path to the appropriate /etc/xxxx.conf file. It's
: a shame there isn't one for pkg-config (AFAIK)

: 2) The schematics in the examples are all composed of main pages with
: the transistors and diodes being subpages. There is no obvious (to me
: the new user) way of making the link so the transistors appear on the
: schematic. Examples are presumably meant for new inexperienced users,
: and as such should work flawlessly.

: 3) There are no examples of projects for use with the gEDA project manager.

: 4) I know it is easier for the developer to run ./configure at the root of
: each package, but there ought to be a way to only do it once for the whole
: system when you are using Stuart's installer program.

: 5) There is really no good reason to rebuild and reinstall the symbols a
: dozen or more times. It significantly adds to the build time.

: Anyway, it seems to be running, and I will begin to explore the construction
: of a project from start to finish. I'm sure that task will keep me quite
: busy.

: Thanks for the help, and inspite of the problems I had installing, please
: know that I think you guys have done a magnificent jog thus far.

Thanks! We take your bug reports seriously, and will soon do another
CD release with at least some fixes to the problems you discovered. I
will take a look at the examples today. Keep watching the project page:

http://www.geda.seul.org/

Stuart

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