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On 6/2/25 04:43, Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via 
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM karl AT aspodata DOT se [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> Vladimir Zhbanov:
>>> "karl AT aspodata DOT se [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> writes:
>> ...
>>>> I can have it a few years, as long as I can afford the site, but after
>>>> that someone else have to take care of it if there would be any
>>>> interest. Considering the low mail volume on this list nowadays, there
>>>> is probably no interest.
>>> There is Bert's repository on GH:
>>> - https://github.com/geda-pcb-developers
>>>
>>> I know, Karl, you won't work with GH.
>> I don't need github since I have my own site.
>>
>>>   However you could support Bert's
>>> efforts by sending patches to him.
>> I'm perfectly fine with using Bert's repo and sending patches to him, I
>> just didn't know about it. Since it is available there is no need for me
>> to have a public pcb repo so I'll remove it.
> I don't like github either, but it does have this advantage that people
> know where to look.
>
> So as far as I'm concerned at this point Bert's repo is the official one,
> is there anyone who disagrees on this for any reason?
>
> There's also a gerbv with updates st it works on github.  It might be nice
> to have a single page that indexed the others, idk.
>
>>> I myself like PCB as I spent much time on it some time in the past, and
>>> there are parts in Lepton that are dedicated for it.  However there are
>>> reasons why I still cannot help much.  The program has to be ported to
>>> GTK3 or GTK4.  Otherwise it will be thrown out from main Linux
>>> distributions.  It's a lot of work, and I would need much more free time
>>> to spent to deal with the task, while I'm still digging up in 25-years
>>> old lepton code trying to do any progress.  Maintaining the 8 years old
>>> lepton fork has shown me that there are still lots of people silently
>>> waiting for somebody to continue the effort, and sometimes they even
>>> help :-)
>> I don't see the value in chasing gtk nor qt etc., motif is perfectly
>> fine for this.
> gtk2 is also fine until it stops building
>
> Britton
>
>> Regards,
>> /Karl Hammar
>>
Yes, IIRC, gEDA 1.10 or thereabouts was released for gtk3 or 4 and my 
Slackware only had gtk2 at that time. Of course, the build failed, but I 
was interested in some of the new features, so I wanted to use the new 
version. I wrote a thread about it and it was decided to release 1.10.1 
(or .2?) so it would build with gtk2. It did and all was well again. 
However, this Slackware64 15.0 I am now using has both gtk2 +, so the 
issue is now moot for me. Actually, I just verified that and if anyone 
is interested, this Slackware64 15.0 has gtk 1.2.10, gtk2 2.24.33, gtk3 
3.24.31, and gtk4 4.4.1. So, I think I am covered. There was some 
discussion about adding a build switch to force the gtk version, but I 
don't know how that came out. To me, it still sounds like a good thing 
to do.

BTW: Just for the record, I, like many others, would be sad to see gEDA 
go. I may not be creating many new products with it any more, but I 
still use it now and then for maintenance. I once used gschem to draw 
mechanical drawings too, but since I found the QCAD Community Edition, I 
switched to the better tool for that. I hope gEDA continues to live on. 
It is a great electronic development tool as far as I am concerned.
Girvin Herr