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I agree, having an Open Source cad project would be a very good thing. I
definetely recommend taking a look at http://www.sourceforge.net/ It's a free
site sponsored by VALinux for hosting Open Source projects. It provides
everything from cvs repositories and bug tracking to task and mailing lists.
very very cool.
Very nice site Karim.
- andrew
In lugnet.cad, Karim Nassar writes:
> In lugnet.cad, Mike Poindexter writes:
> > Karim,
> >
> > I happen to like the look of the user interface. It definitely has the
> > "Adobe" look and feel.
>
> Hehehe, well, That's not necessarily a *good* thing :) But it's true, I used
> screenshots of Photoshop to composite the interface screens, as that was what • I
> had at hand.
>
> It also looks like the best interface I have seen,
> > although it looks like it adds a little to the learning curve. Of course,
> > added power comes at the price of added complexity.
> >
> > Has Michael Lachmann seen this? I think that he would be the most likely
> > programmer to take this on, based on how often he updates MLCAD. Perhaps he
> > could implement this type of interface for MLCAD v2.0.
>
> He has. I'm not sure what he thinks of it in totality (perhaps he could
> respond?), though I belive he said that it seemed like a daunting project. Of
> course, the key here is that this kind of project is really too big for one
> person to accomplish (unless they are getting paid for it). That is why the
> goal of Artemis is to achieve an Open Source, or at least Distributed • Developer
> community around the development of LCAD software. This is too large a project
> for one person to handle on his/her own and still achieve the level of • software
> that we all want.
>
> --Karim
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