The real issue for me is the availability of libraries though I agree
that schematic capture/edit is a deal breaker. I kind of just assume
that any reasonable system will have a decent one. I like eagle
because there are a lot of libraries free for the using and the lib
editor is reasonably capable (though cumbersome to use).
If I were trying to push a new system, I'd have a gazillion libraries
out there to make it trivially easy to get going. Also, I'd have a
bunch of predefined symbols (packages, schematic symbols) that I
could use to quickly add a new part. There is nothing more
discouraging than to start a design and discover that you need to
create all sorts of new parts completely from scratch. A 15 minute
job becomes hours of tedium in looking up layouts and so on.
Actually, if it were me, I'd figure out to import other systems
libraries. heh heh....
--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, Russell Shaw <rjshaw@n...>
wrote:
> Stefan Trethan wrote:
> >>Anything that's not open source is not yours whatever you pay. If
the
> >>vendor disappears, you're on borrowed time.
> >>
> > Any open sorce pcb software out there?
>
> "pcb" for linux. I haven't used it, because there's no matching
> schematic editor i like.