{"id":248,"date":"2008-06-11T15:08:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=248"},"modified":"2008-06-11T15:08:15","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T19:08:15","slug":"my-gripes-with-geda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/06\/my-gripes-with-geda\/","title":{"rendered":"my gripes with gEDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I like open-source tools, I thought I&#8217;d give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geda.seul.org\/\">gEDA<\/a> a shot. I installed it (but see below), and attempted to do a schematic for the &#8220;Big Baby 8&#8221; sequencer I hope to build sometime this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Good things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I like the features available for the price<\/li>\n<li>I REALLY like the keyboard controls. They were pretty intuitive and convenient.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bad things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I never actually was able to get the whole suite completely installed on my Mac. I kept running into some kind of Fink Ghostscript dependency loop that prevented <em>something<\/em> from getting installed. At some point I decided it was &#8220;installed enough&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geda.seul.org\/tools\/gschem\/index.html\">gschem<\/a> was installed anyway (which was all I really needed), so I gave up on whatever was missing. I did manage to get the whole suite installed on a SPARC Ubuntu box, and once I get my Ubuntu Studio box configured, up,\u00c2\u00a0 and running at home , I will try again on that. I&#8217;m sure that will go ok.<\/li>\n<li>For some reason, I couldn&#8217;t get the information box that appears on a new schematic to\u00c2\u00a0 delete. I did this easily on the SPARC box. It may just be a question of selecting everything else, moving it aside, and then lasso-ing and deleting the box, but with my schematic splayed all over it, doing so would probably nuke whatever&#8217;s there.<\/li>\n<li>Connecting nets to components seemed tricky at best. In order to tell if a connection had been made, I usually ended up selecting a component and moving it around to see if the net moved with it.<\/li>\n<li>I eventually ended up with a connection I COULD NOT connect a net to, no matter how hard I tried. That&#8217;s kind of no good.<\/li>\n<li>At some point (when I was attempting to correct my not-quite-connected nets), it started getting really crashy. After two such crashes I lost my patience and decided to re-do the whole thing in EAGLE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong. It definitely seems like a nice set of tools. I&#8217;m still kind of a newb at EDA tools in general, so I may not be the best test case. I will probably try again (but on Linux, rather than OS X)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I like open-source tools, I thought I&#8217;d give gEDA a shot. I installed it (but see below), and attempted to do a schematic for the &#8220;Big Baby 8&#8221; sequencer I hope to build sometime this summer. Good things: I like the features available for the price I REALLY like&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2008\/06\/my-gripes-with-geda\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}