Re: gEDA-dev: geda project manager/wxWidgets UI

["Newell Jensen" <pillar2012-at-NOSPAMgmail_dot_com>]

   On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Peter Clifton <[1]pcjc2@cam.ac.uk>
   wrote:

   On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 16:35 -0500, Peter Wiley-Cordone wrote:
   > Hello all,
   >
   > I'm new to gEDA (went to the last free dog meeting) and am coming up
   > to speed with using it.  What a cool project this is and I'm looking
   > forward to getting PCB's out of it for some projects I"m working on.

     Cool.

   > I'm also planning on doing some work on the project.  I'd like to
   work
   > on the GUI, as I think it would make the project more accessible to
   > people, more productive to use, etc.  I looked a little at the code,
   > and while I can certainly learn gtk programming (I have a C/C++ and
   > Java background) I'm thinking of trying out wxWidgets.  The
   > documentation mentions a project manager app, geda, and the wiki
   talks
   > about polishing it up as a smallish project (about what I can take
   on
   > at this time).  I'd like to give implementing that in wxWidgets a
   shot.
   > I build gschem from the source, but don't see the geda project
   > manager in there.  Is that a separate download.

     The project manager is currently a work in progress by Newell
     Jenson,
     and is written in PyGTK. There is also xgsch2pcb (PyGTK), which was
     something Peter Brett and myself wrote as a project to bridge the
     gap
     between the lack of a gEDA/gaf project manager, and whatever will
     eventually become the fully fledged project manager.
     See the git repositories here:
     [2]http://git.gpleda.org/
     For both xgsch2pcb and Newell's gSoC project gEDA manager.

   As Peter mentioned you can go to the link and download the latest
   source code.  I plan on having a stable release by the end of the year
   and need to get on it to see that it gets done.  Sometimes playing
   with hardware is funner than writing code :).
   I wouldn't mind help if you wanted to jump in and contribute.
   Let me know if that interests you.

   > Has anyone considering moving
   > the ui to wxWidgets?  (I probably should search for a post on that,
   so
   > if this has been debated I apologize).

     AFAIK, We're all pretty happy with GTK (and its various language
     bindings), and see no reason to re-write the project in anything
     else.
     If we were to consider porting to a different GUI toolkit, someone
     would
     have to make a very strong case for the benefits that would bring,
     weighed up against the huge cost in developer time which would be
     sunk
     into switching.
     Regards,
     --
     Peter Clifton
     Electrical Engineering Division,
     Engineering Department,
     University of Cambridge,
     9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
     Cambridge
     CB3 0FA
     Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)

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References

   1. mailto:pcjc2@cam.ac.uk
   2. http://git.gpleda.org/
   3. mailto:geda-dev@moria.seul.org
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   5. http://www.gempillar.com/


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