Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/08/28/00:02:12
Hi all,
meanwhile Jason White has pointed out a major bug in my packaging. I've
fixed it and the new version is uploaded to the same url:
http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/pcb-rnd.tar.bz2
Please delete your old ~/pcb-rnd, download the new tarball and unpack.
It should deploy a file called 'rev' with content '2' in the ~/pcb-rnd (so
that it's easier to check and distinguish between the new and the old
pack).
Hope this time it works better, and sorry for the inconveniences.
Regards,
Igor2
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm proud to announce yet another experiment on raising user activity: the
> binary tarball of pcb-rnd. This allows users to try pcb-rnd on Linux on x86_64
> without downloading sources or compiling anything. This is a pre-alpha version
> to see if there's anyone interested at all. It worked on my system but has not
> been tested anywhere else yet.
>
> This is also a poll: if you try it, please send me an email in private about
> how it worked (or failed), what scripting languages you would use if they were
> available. I'm also interested in your general comments/suggestions after the
> testrun.
>
> I will go on spending time on the binary distribution only if there are at
> least 5 users doing *actual testruns* with it and they are reporting in.
>
> Features
> ~~~~~~~~
>
> - all the core pcb-rnd features (e.g. internal connections in footprints,
> display shorts using minimal cut, funny pin shapes)
>
> - parametric footprint support in core
>
> - parametric footprint integrated with the gtk HID (open the library window
> and type dip(12))
>
> - support for multiple HIDs (try --gui lesstif)
>
> - scripting! In this very first version of the binary distribution awk, lua
> and ruby are supported (don't try the others, they will fail; from a proper
> installation from source there are at least 8 languages working fine)
>
>
> How to get it
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Download the tarball and unpack it in your home:
>
> http://igor2.repo.hu/tmp/pcb-rnd.tar.bz2
>
> It all works from ~/pcb-rnd/ and should not write files outside of that dir
> unless you explicitly ask it to (e.g. with save as). If you don't trust it add
> a new user for the test. No root needed anywhere in the process.
>
> You can get example scripts from the pcb-rnd rosetta project at
> http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/gpmi/rosetta/index.html and load them using
> the GUI or config files.
>
> There's a file called INSTALL in the tarball that describes what you need to
> do after the unpack (basically just run ./pcb-rnd or put it on your PATH).
>
> Regards,
>
> Igor2
>
> P.S. Disclaimer: I do realize this is not the proper way software should be
> installed. This is a quick hack to ease testing.
>
>
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