Re: [Gnucap-devel] SPICE to gnucap transition

[Dan McMahill]

> > > I find it strange that gwave is the only one that accepts
> > > the gnucap files.  The gnucap files can be read by anything
> > > that is not spice specific, easily.  The only viewers that
> > > have a problem are the ones specifically written for the
> > > bizarre format that spice uses.  There are many of these.
> >
> > I was under the impression that there was some modification
> > made to gwave to accommodate gnucap since the web site
> > specifically mentions gnucap. I'm somewhat reluctant to use
> > gwave because it would be the *only* application installed on
> > my FC6 box that depends on the ancient gtk-1.2.x!
>
>
> It was added to the documentation later.  It is probably used a 
> lot more with gnucap than it is with CaZM.  Not much work has 
> been done on gwave in the past few years.  There is a lot of 
> room for more.
>
> The latest version doesn't build on my machine.  I get some 
> strange guile errors I don't understand.  I use an older 
> version that has a Debian package.

I wonder what it would take to catch gwave up a little or to teach 
gtkwave to read the ascii data that gnucap is currently able to produce.

A better waveform viewer (including calculator) is something I think is 
really needed.  Too many projects, not enought time....

gwave is really lacking in any analysis features like octave but the 
octave plotting tools really aren't good for interactive waveform 
viewing (lack of scrolling, cursors, etc).

This is an area where I think it wouldn't even be that hard to be way 
better than some of the high end commercial tools.

-Dan