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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <html> <head> <title>GnuAE - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</title> <meta name="generator" content="Emacs (Linux)"> <meta name="changedby" content="Rob Savoye"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="dejagnu"> <style>  </style> </head> <body text="#000000" link="#1f00ff" vlink="#9900dd" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <img src="images/gnuae-logo.png" alt="GnuAE Logo Graphic" align=left width=232 height=82 border=0> <img src="images/gnu-type-sm.jpg" alt="Gnu Head Logo" align=right width=123 height=126 border=0> <hr>GnuAE is looking for a co-maintainer. If you're interested, please take a look at this <a href="/help/evaluation.html#whatmeans">general information about GNU packages and being a GNU maintainer</a>, and then email maintainers@gnu.org with a bit about your background and particular interest in this package. Thanks.<hr> <hr>      <a href="#introduction" name="TOCintroduction">Introduction</A> | <a href="#downloading" name="TOCdownloading">Get the Software</a> | <a href="#documentation" name="TOCdocumentation">Documentation </a> | <a href="#lists" name="TOClists">Mailing Lists/Newsgroups </a> | <a href="#installhgelp" name="TOCinstallhelp">Install Help</a> | <a href="#enhancement" name="TOCenhancement">Request an Enhancement</a> | <a href="#bug" name="TOCbug">Report a Bug </a> | <a href="#maintainer" namE="TOCmaintainer">Maintainer</a> <hr>  <h4><a href="#TOCintroduction" NAME="introduction">Introduction</a></h4> GnuAE is a GNOME/GTK compliant GUI for designing photovoltaic and wind powered houses with compliance to the National Electrical Code. As GnuAE has a database of components and current average prices, it can help you judge the total cost of a system by experimenting with different options like using a propane or DV fridge, or more or less reserve days or hours of sun. GnuAE is also designed to make it much easier to wire for NEC code compliance without studying all 800 some pages of the NEC specification. Even for an electrician, the interdependencies between calculations is daunting. While DC wiring is much simpler than AC wiring, most off-grid household systems are both. There is even a built in NEC calculator for people that have a good feel for what they are doing, but want to also experiment with differing conduit sizes, parallel wire runs, and voltage drop. GnuAE currently only runs on GNU/Linux & MacOSX, although some attention has been paid to eventual ports to M$ WinDoze (using cygwin). This is the initial alpha release, so your mileage may vary... I can think of a few bugs right now I need to fix before the first release. Sorry for the lame GUI, I'm not a GUI programmer, I'm more of a system hacker. Please contribute to the development of this project by helping track down bugs, or add features, or improve the GUI. <h4><a href="#TOCdownloading" name="downloading">Downloading GnuAE</a></h4> GnuAE releases (when the release is done) will be found on in the subdirectory /gnu/gnuae/ on your favorite <a href="http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html">GNU mirror</a>. The latest gnuae development sources are available via anonymous CVS. Use the following commands to check them out (just hit return when you are prompted for the password): I use <a href=http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia>DIA</a> for drawing wiring diagrams. <a href=gnuae-dia.tgz>Here's</a> an additional sheet and shapes for alternate energy systems with things like inverters, photovoltaic panels, batteries, etc. As an example, here's a <a href=pv-wiring.png>wiring example</a> based on my own system. <pre> export CVS_RSH="ssh" cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/gnuae co gnuae </pre>  For more detailed information on CVS usage at gnu.org, read <a href=http://savanah.gnu.org/cvs/?group_id=6786>CVS Usage at gnu.org</a>. You can also <a href=http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnuae/gnuae>browse the sources</a>. For other ways to obtain GnuAE, please read <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html#HowToGetSoftware">How to get GNU Software</a>  <h4><a href="#TOCdocumentation" name="documentation">Documentation</a></h4> GnuAE documentation can be found at <a href="manual/">http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuae/manual/ </a>  <h4><a href="#TOClists" name="lists">Mailing Lists/Newsgroups</a></h4> GnuAE has three mailing lists hosted at <tt>gnu.org</tt>. Archives of these lists are stored at <a href="http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/"> http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/</a>: <ul> <li><a href="http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnuae/">gnuae@gnu.org</a> is for discussion of gnuae development, porting to new platforms, ideas for the future, general gnuae usage or problems. New alpha and stable releases are announced here. To subscribe, go the <a href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuae"> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuae</a> Volume is typically low. <li><a href="http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnuae"> bug-gnuae@gnu.org</a> is a special list for reporting bugs, and to enable the developers to track submitted bug reports. If you think you have found a bug in gnuae, then you should, in the first instance send as complete a report as possible to this list. ideally, you should include the text you get by running <samp>config.guess</samp>, the text you see when you run <samp>configure</samp>, and if you can, a patch made with <samp>diff -u5</samp> which fixes the problem. It will also be useful to send the logfile from the test run. To subscribe, go the <a href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnuae"> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnuae</a> Volume is typically low. <li><a href="http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnuae-commit"> gnuae-commit@gnu.org</a> is where summaries of changes commited to the CVS repository are automatically posted. If you wish to see these changes as they happen, <a href="http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuae-commit"> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnuae-commit</a> Volume is sporadic, but typically low. <li><a href="http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/gnuae-patches/">gnuae-patches@gnu.org</a> is where the patches to the gnuae repository are posted for peer review before being commited to CVS. Send an email to <a href="mailto:libtool-patches-request@gnu.org">gnuae-patches-request@gnu.org</a> with <tt>subscribe</tt> as the subject line if you want to join. Volume is typically low, though individual messages can be quite large. </ul> Announcements about GnuAE and most other GNU Software are made on <a href="mailto:info-gnu@gnu.org"><info-gnu@gnu.org></a>. <h4><a href="#TOCenhancement" name="enhancement">Request an Enhancement</a></h4> If you would like any new feature to be included in future versions of GnuAE, please send a request to <a href="mailto:gnuae@gnu.org"><gnuae@gnu.org></a> Please remember that development of GnuAE is a volunteer effort, and you can also contribute to its development. For information about contributing to the GNU Project, please read <a href="http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html">How to help GNU</a>. <h4><a href="#TOCbug" name="bug">Report a Bug</a></h4> If you think you have found a bug in GnuAE, then you should send as complete a report as possible to <a href="mailto:bug-gnuae@gnu.org"><bug-gnuae@gnu.org></a>. <h4> <a href="#TOCmaintainer" NAME="maintainer">Maintainer</a></h4> GnuAE is currently being maintained by <a href=http://www.welcomehome.org/rob.html>Rob Savoye</a>  <hr> [  <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/software/XXX.html">English   </A> ] Return to <a href="http://www.gnu.org/home.html">GNU's home page</a>. Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org">gnu@gnu.org</a>. there are also <a href="http://www.gnu.org/home.html#contactinfo">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. 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