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Is Eagle PCB a dead product?

Former Member
Former Member over 17 years ago

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

That does not look good. What gives?

 

 

 

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  • autodeskguest
    autodeskguest over 17 years ago

    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.

     

    --

    James Morrison

    www.eagletoolkit.com

    EAGLE Design Expert

    North American Online EAGLE Dealer

    EAGLE Enterprise Toolkit

     

     

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    autodeskguest over 17 years ago

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

    news:fu8hu6$7tk$1@cheetah.cadsoft.de...

    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.

     

     

     

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    autodeskguest over 17 years ago

    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

     

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 17 years ago

    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

    news:s0vmd5-4mt.ln1@520042650687.t-online.de...

    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

     

     

     

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    autodeskguest over 17 years ago

    "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

     

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