Re: gEDA-user: Yet another netlister

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 1, 2009, at 11:45 AM, r wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 5:09 PM, John Doty<jpd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps not Guile, but we're going to have to keep Scheme around for
>> a long time, because all those back ends are important. It's not that
>> there's a lot of code in them, but they embody a great deal of
>> research into just what each format needs (often the product of
>> "reverse engineering").
>
> Fair enough. What Scheme implementation will be used?

I have no preference. I'm actually pretty happy with Guile. For all  
its annoyances, it has served us well.

>
>> And in the particular case of spice-sdb, Stuart has produced really
>> good documentation. Those who want to improve SPICE netlisting would
>> be well advised to read and understand that first.
>
> Thanks for your gnetlist tutorial, BTW. It was an interesting read.

More to come. "Watch this space".

>
> Improving backends is easy (well, relatively easy). What's hard is
> fixing the front-end so that it provides full design information to
> back-ends (including hierarchy and parameters, of course). I also
> think that the best way to do it is to implement this functionality in
> Scheme (so that all front-end data structures are naturally available
> to back-ends) but it is still OK to have this functionality in a
> compiled core provided it doesn't hide design information from its
> back-ends.

Agreed.

>
> Regards,
> -r.
>
>
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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