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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 22:18:17 -0800
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb git down, new git repo available
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> On 6/3/25 01:07, DJ Delorie (dj AT delorie DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
> wrote:
> > So I've decided to "give up" on keeping this thing alive any longer.
> > Igor2 has offered to host a read-only copy and refer everyone to
> > whatever other public repos have more recent versions, for those of you
> > on github et al.  Or switch to lepton or ringdov.  Or kicad.  Or
> > DaveCAD.  I'm not going to be emotionally tied to whatever you decide ;-)
> >
> > DNS has been updated, so everything should be seamless, except the old
> > git repos will vanish next time the ancient server crashes.  They were
> > out of date anyway.
> >
> > Many thanks to those who have helped keep this alive in the past, and
> > offered to help keep it alive in the future!
>
>    This is very sad, but understandable.

Agreed.  Thanks for all your effort over the years DJ.

>    I'm happy to host the mailing list here if that would be helpful; let
> me know.

I'd appreciate the mailing list to continue existing without anyone
needing to sign up again if that's possible.
People are still responding now so it seems worthwhile.

Other than that I'd like to see a github index page that keeps track
of the most maintained repositories of the various components,
somewhat like the old gEDA web pages used to do.  In my case this
means pcb, gerbv, and gschem.  I'm not opposed to it being inclusive
of anything anyone else thinks should go on the list.

So far as I know at the moment this means:

For pcb:    https://github.com/gEDA-pcb-developers/pcb
For gerbv:     https://github.com/gerbv/gerbv
For geda-gaf maybe:  https://github.com/rlutz/geda-gaf ?
                  or maybe:  https://launchpad.net/geda/+download
                  or ?  with gschem I'm not sure at all which is best
at this point

Does Bert's version of pcb have everything worth preserving from elsewhere?

Bert are you still around and ok with having your version
semi-official?  Obviously we're not talking about any big commitment
here at this point, just a sort of best bet at what is most likely to
build.

Which version of gschem is suggested?

Maybe this would just be my private list idk, but I still use this
software and maybe it's worth preserving some idea of how best to make
it work for someone else also.  If there are parts above that nobody
wants to speak for at all I'd like to know that as well (and I'll make
an "official" version of my own :)

Britton