Re: Kicad

From: André Fachat <*afachat_at_gmx.de*> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 17:12:26 +0100 Message-ID: <16fd32d1a10.27ff.b4d1f2b66006003a6acd9b1a7b71c3b1_at_gmx.de> · afachat_at_gmx.de

Am 23. Januar 2020 17:06:45 schrieb Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>:

> Den Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:39:47 -0500 skrev Ethan Dicks
> <ethan.dicks_at_gmail.com>:
>> What a timely message.  I too looked at KiCAD a few years ago and
>> decided it wasn't up to the task (yet), but I was just setting up a
>> new-to-me Linux laptop and discovered that the license for new
>> versions of EagleCAD require a subscription and the old versions that
>> do not (i.e. 7.70 and older) are not new enough to run on recent
>> versions of Linux (not sufficiently backwards-compatible with
>> up-to-date system libraries).
>
> Side-track-tip: As long as your current kernel is compatible with the
> libraries in an old distribution, you can run an older distribution in
> a chroot. (You might also be able to install older versions of the
> system libraries on a current distribution).

I actually run Eagle in a VM with an older Linux in it...

How is forward and backward annotation now in kicad? That's my Eagle killer
feature as it is so simple there.

André