pcb-rnd is a rapid moving independent project that originated as a fork of the -Pcb codebase. +
pcb-rnd is a rapid moving independent project started in 2013, but roots +tracing back to the early 90s, to PCB.
From the pcb.html documentation:
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Atari ST in 1990 and ported to UNIX and X11 in
1994. It was not intended as a professional layout system, but as a tool
which supports people who do some home-developing of hardware.
- Release history and credits for Pcb can be found in
- the documentation files in mainline Pcb, and currently as of this writing at
- http://pcb.geda-project.org/manual.html
-
In Fall 2013, Tibor Palinkas started an unofficial fork of Pcb to make and +
In Fall 2013, Tibor 'Igor2' Palinkas started an unofficial fork of PCB to make and share changes and improvements, and over the following years the fork was officially announced, adopted additional users, and reached various milestones -
- 15:39 < Igor2> $ svn log -r 1 svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd - 15:39 < Igor2> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - 15:39 < Igor2> r1 | igor2 | 2013-08-30 17:33:06 +0200 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013) | 2 - lines - 15:39 < Igor2> -Add: trunk -
-A more complete history can be found -in the pcb-history project. +In 2015, the project switched pace: lot of hours invested and many new developers +and contributors joined, pcb-rnd started to grow rapidly. Most of the code base +has been extended, cleaned up or rewritten. This affected major components +as the plugin system, the I/O (file format support) subsystem and even the +data model pcb-rnd operates on. +
+At the moment, pcb-rnd is not part of any EDA suite. +
+A more complete history can be found in the +pcb-history project. +