From: ahvezda@cybercom.net (Ales Hvezda)
Subject: Re: GPL'ed Electronic CAD under Linux?
Date: 14 Apr 1998 20:21:53 GMT


[ Please forgive me if you see this message twice.  tin munched my 
  first article. ]


Erik de Castro Lopo (erikd@zip.com.au) wrote:
: Stefan Petersen wrote:
: > 
: > Hello,
: > a while ago there was a discussion in this newsgroup about CAD-programs.
: > I understood as it was about mechanical CAD, like AutoCAD et al.
: > 
: > Now I wonder if there is any open source/free/GPL'ed _electronic_
: > CAD-applications for Linux which do things like schematic capture,
: > board layout, export/import netlists and such nice little things.

: There's a new project which is just starting up at:
: 	http://www.cybercom.net/~ahvezda/software/gEDA/
: It doesn't work yet, but keep an eye on it. I think it looks
: promising and I've emailed the author with offers for help.


Hi,

	I am the above mentioned author of gEDA.  I was waiting for 
somebody to ask for a ECAD system for GNU, but looks like Erik
beat me to posting the my web address. :-)

	Anyways, as Erik mentioned, gEDA is not ready for prime time use
(not even close), but I did the first code release on April 1st and I'm
getting close to doing the second code release (version 0.0.2).

	If anybody has any comments/suggestions/critisisms/ideas/wants 
to contribute code or documentation please e-mail me!  I'll hopefully be 
getting a mailing list soon and a CVS repository and then the collaborated 
development can start. :-)

								-Ales


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