GEDA site dead?

[Mark Anderson]

Actually now that I look at Lepton - it looks like the spiritual successor
of gEDA and maybe a good candidate for a replacement port - because unless
geda-project.com starts resolving real soon, it's pretty much a dead port.
We could point at a copy I have, but that seems like a bad idea.

—Mark
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 7:41 PM Mark Anderson <mark at macports.org> wrote:

> Yeah - that's what I've been afraid of - I've been the maintainer for a
> while, but even I don't use it that much anymore - and was wondering if it
> was completely dead or had any life at all. It's macOS performance had been
> slipping as well.
>
> I know gerbv/pcb/gtkwave have all kept up which is good - but it might be
> time to deprecate the geda-gaf port and focus on other EDA stuff that has
> been popping up, like Klayout, and the 130 nm open source PDK, and
> OpenRoad/Lane. I always had a soft spot for gEDA since it was kinda a
> knockoff of Cadence which is how I got my chip design start, but it might
> be time to move on.
>
> —Mark
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> On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 7:00 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> 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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