Is Eagle PCB a dead product?

On 2008/Apr/17 6:08 PM, in article fu8hu6$7tk$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de, "Gene

Kochanowsky" <gene@solutionsciences.com> wrote:

There has not been a new version of this product for a year and four month.

That does not look good. What gives?

I suppose that depends on how you look at it.  By most software standards,

there have been pretty few bug fixes since 4.1.  In general I'd say that is

a good thing.

And EAGLE 5.0 is coming out any day.  So I think I would answer "no".

James.

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"Gene Kochanowsky" <gene@solutionsciences.com> wrote in message

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There has not been a new version of this product for a year and four

month. That does not look good. What gives?

 

It's definitely not a dead product.  In fact, it's pretty much become the

standard starting point for all PCB design.  Now if you're a company with a

£10k budget then it's not what you're looking for.

The licencing of Eagle is pretty effective too.  All it does is to hard code

your name and address into it's files.  That's pretty effective in software

protection terms.  There's no dongles, no key files, no floppys with flaky

sectors.  Just your name.

On the whole, they've got it pretty much right.  There's odd things we would

like, of course there are.  But at least we're able to sit here and talk

about it.  Many software companies won't allow that and censor problems.  I

remember years ago a CRM product I was rolling out for a company.  I tried

to do what we we're doing here (talking to others on usenet), and ended up

with a very angry senior executive on the phone.

Eagle is laid bare, for all to see.  We can all contribute to it too.

In article <fu8hu6$7tk$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de>,

"Gene Kochanowsky" <gene@solutionsciences.com> wrote:

There has not been a new version of this product for a year and four month.

That does not look good. What gives?

Suffering from versionitis?

Best regards,

Günther

Thanks for the replies. In the new version does anyone know if there will be

support for embedded tags in library parts for use in generating BOMs that

can be easily cross referenced to existing inventory systems? I have been

hoping for several years that this would be supported in some way or another

in a future version.

If the product had every feature that one could want and pretty much had no

bugs then I could see not needing to release new versions. But a quick look

at the support and suggestion lists made me wonder.

"Günther Dietrich" <guenther.dietrich@spamfence.net> wrote in message

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In article <fu8hu6$7tk$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de>,

"Gene Kochanowsky" <gene@solutionsciences.com> wrote:

 

There has not been a new version of this product for a year and four

month.

That does not look good. What gives?

 

Suffering from versionitis?

 

 

 

Best regards,

 

Günther

"Gene Kochanowsky" wrote:

Thanks for the replies. In the new version does anyone know if there will be

support for embedded tags in library parts for use in generating BOMs that

watch eagle.betatest and/or get the current release candidate from

ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/betatest/ and look at the files in the /doc

directory.

I guess "attributes" is what you are looking for.

We get several other long requested improvements - context menus and

platform standards, replace in schematic, non-destructive move between

sheets, net class distances in a matrix, lock, cross reference labels,

ratsnest improvements, group selection, better ERC/DRC checks.

Quirks have been fixed like CHANGE VALUE offering traces, ROUTE

possible in supply layers. Restrictions have been removed, so COPY and

CHANGE works with groups, many commands can now select parts, pads,

smds, pins, gates, attributes, airwires by name.

Nothing revolutionary, though.

Oliver