GEDA site dead?

[Gagan Sidhu]

every time i see valerio’s name, i’m reminded of the scene from night at the roxbury referencing emilio estevez

i don’t know why it comes to mind, nor why i felt this was worth sharing, but whatever.

Thanks,
Gagan

> On Jan 27, 2024, at 5:00 PM, Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate via macports-dev <macports-dev at lists.macports.org> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto:macports-dev at lists.macports.org>> wrote:
> domain was http://www.geda-project.org/ <http://www.geda-project.org/>
> see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDA <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 <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 <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 <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/science/geda-gaf/Portfile> the homepage is http://www.geda-project.org/ <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 <mailto:mark at macports.org>> het volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >> I've been having trouble getting to http://www.geda-project.com/ <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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