Re: gEDA gschem: "Write image" resolution

JeffM wrote:
> Joerg wrote:
>> Just kicked the tires on gschem, to see if I should switch.
>> Since it doesn't look like there will ever be a Windows version...
>>
>  (At points in the past) I have seen evidence
> that there were at least 2 "Windoze versions" of the suite.
>
http://www.google.com/search?q=gEDA+win32.build+OR+win32.****t+site:seul.org+-rendering&num=100
> (As mentioned in previous threads, the result is a lot of grousing
> and bug re****ts on things that are user errors.)
> 
> There _are_ currently Windows versions out there running.
> What there _isn't_ is a "Windoze installer".
> Each Windoze user has to *compile* executables for himself.
> As that weeds out a lot of the folks who have low software skills,
> it minimizes the occurances of Clueless Windoze User Syndrome.
> 

That pretty much excludes me as well. I am most certainly not a 
programmer but know CAD quite well.


>> ...I am running it in VirtualBox on an XP machine.
>>
> As the elements of the gEDA suite are written as Unix apps,
> there will always need to be
> an intermediate layer at *some* point in the process
> --even if what you want to end up with
> are **native** Windoze-compatible executables.
>
http://www.google.com/search?q=build.gEDA+Cygwin+-have-not&filter=0&num=100
> 
> So, how is the speed with your level of horsepower?


Well, it's so so. It's ok but not quite as snappy as Cadsoft Eagle. But 
Eagle doesn't have a hierarchical sheet structures so what can ya do?

Right now Ubuntu forgets the links to the LAN server every time I power 
it down. Hopefully I'll figure that out one of these days but it's only 
a minute to re-install that in the morning.

-- 
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