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Offline gnuarmTopic starter

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FreePCB: Is it on the RADAR?
« on: February 07, 2021, 06:46:22 pm »
I have used FreePCB for a commercial project and may use it in the future.  The original developer has retired and no longer supports the product, but the software continues to be supported by someone else.  So it is seeing new features on a regular basis.  I'm wondering how many of those here use or have at least tried this layout software package? How many are interested?

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Re: FreePCB: Is it on the RADAR?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2021, 03:37:36 pm »
I've used it for quite a few projects in the past, but have stopped using it a few years ago. Yeah it became unmaintained. I know someone else ended up taking the project over, but I haven't really followed that ever since. Looks like there are many new features.

The fact it's Windows-only, and based on MFC is also what got me off it in the end. (This last point is particularly annoying as MS has stopped supporting MFC.)

I took a look - seems the new developer hasn't released the source code? There are only binaries on Github?
« Last Edit: February 10, 2021, 03:44:44 pm by SiliconWizard »
 


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