Re: gEDA for Windows?

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:kt5Wi.37948$eY.6812@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Quote "To save development time, we will base this version on Eagle and re-use as much Eagle functionality as possible."

Umm, why are they doing this? Wouldn't that be a waste of grant funds since a commercial product already exists?

They sound a little naive, IMO. See: http://www.fritzing.org/development/implementation/considerations ... I'm sure they genuinely think they can address some perceived "need" that no one else, no date, has... and do so before their grant runs out, or at least make enough progress to get it renewed. :-)


Possibly it's about grants, don't know.


If I switch I'd like that to be to something that has a potential to become mainstream here in the US, not Europe.

Hmm... that is a bit of a tough problem, especially if you're trying to keep the costs down -- it seems U.S.-based EDA tools are almost always noticeably more expensive than their European or pan-Asian counterparts (there's a surprisingly large amount of cool stuff that comes out of Oz and Kiwiland these days... probably China and Japan too if I knew the language...). (This is especially odd when you have trash like ORCAD Capture which is "maintained" in India today -- just where are all those maintenance fees going, anyway?)


Paying for the corporate Lamborghinis maybe :-)

Actually CAD is cheaper here. Always was. When I lived in Europe I bought OrCad here for half of what it cost over there. Even Eagle is cheaper here than in Germany (where it is written!). What I do not understand is why the industry in the US blindly plunks down whatever OrCad costs, a program that is IMHO not nearly as good anymore as it was in the DOS days. It's price has tripled since the early 90's.


One other problem with Eagle is an utter lack of marketing efforts in the US.

I think the first time I saw their ad was in a Nuts & Volts magazine years ago. I wonder if they ever moved up to at least, e.g., Circuit Cellar Ink?


I've never seen an Eagle ad in the US. I stumbled upon it by pure coincidence when browsing for a new CAD after OrCad blue-screened on me one too many times.

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Regards, Joerg

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