GEDA site dead?

[Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate]

Valerio, thanks for that reference.  Lepton-eda looks like a nice successor
to gEDA, and a good candidate for a new port.


On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 10:25 AM Valerio Messina via macports-dev <
macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:

> domain was http://www.geda-project.org/
> see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA
> seems payd till October 2024 but now is down
>
> gEDA development has always been with the main focus on Linux and have
> never cared about macOS and Windows.
> In recent years, competition from KiCad (which is madly actively
> developed cross platform by CERN and is still GPL) I think has killed
> the development of gEDA. The only exception is GerbV which is still
> maintained and is quite up to date for Linux and Windows, but not for
> macOS:
> https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv
>
> In reality GerbV has always been the only program in the package to
> compile correctly for Windows, I generated it annually for Linux and
> Windows colleagues, and due to its ease I still find it superior to the
> one integrated into KiCad, even if it does not support the Gerber X2
> standard is become obsolete.
>
>
> Take a look to Lepton:
> https://github.com/lepton-eda/lepton-eda
> seems mantained
>
> Valerio
>
>
> On 1/27/24 1:46 PM, Nils Breunese wrote:
> > I’m not familiar with gEDA, but according to
> https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/science/geda-gaf/Portfile
> the homepage is http://www.geda-project.org/
> >
> > But requests to both the .com and the .org domains indeed fail for me.
> >
> > Nils.
> >
> >> Op 26 jan 2024, om 03:37 heeft Mark Anderson <mark at macports.org> het
> volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >> I've been having trouble getting to http://www.geda-project.com/ -
> anyone else? This doesn't bode well for the project / Portfile. It might be
> time to retire it, or mark it as deprecated.
> >>
> >> —Mark
>
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