[Magic-dev] Now that Tim has formalized the development home for some EDA tools ...

[Svenn Are Bjerkem]

... I hope it will also be possible to centralize the mailinglists for these programs, and also start getting some serious work on getting them debian clean.

I found that xcircuit was orphaned and picked up by John Rigg lately as I was trying to get a more up-to-date source compiled at home.

I also found that there is no version of magic, netgen or irsim available for debian.

PCB is heavily developed by some of the gEDA guys over at http://geda.seul.org and they seem to be focusing on gtk. (They have discovered that Tim has a fork based on Tcl/Tk)

I think we should take a discussion on how to proceed coordination as I guess that Tim has an idea where he wants to go with the tools.

There is also the license topic. I haven't checked all licenses and I hope they would fit the criterias that Debian set.

Bringing the TimTools to Debian also has a downside: I expect the cry for support to increase and thus the packaging and maintaining of the Debian packages should not be something that Tim would have to bother about. I will take the jobs that nobody else wants.

Now, I hope as many as possible who more or less actively use the TimTools step up and say something about what hardware and operating system they use and if a Debian initiative make any sense in your opinion. If you don't want to publish to the mailinglists, send me an email and I will post a short summary to the lists.

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Kind regards,
Svenn