Re: gEDA-user: gEDA just hit SlashDotOrg

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 9, 2009, at 12:45 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 12:09:01 -0600, John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> With the exception of the flow from gschem to layout in another
>> suite, which works radically well. How to generalize? Well, if you
>> want to export schematics instead of just netlists and BOM's, a
>> gnetlist back end needs access to all the schematic data, not just a
>> subset. The barrier here is all of the unnecessarily hard-wired
>> behavior in the gnetlist front end.
>
> One project I've had in mind for a while is to write a "geda-netlist"
> program in (almost) pure Scheme,

Would you parse the schems/symbols with libgeda?

> which when run as "gnetlist" behaves the
> same as the current C gnetlist, but when run as "geda-netlist"

Not clear to me that you need that. Backends that limit themselves to  
the old API could get the old behavior.

> uses new
> backends which have a lot more access to the netlist internals in  
> order to
> get full control over the way that the schematics and symbols are
> processed.

The longer I think about this, the more useful applications I see.

>
> This is one of those things that I will do "Soon" (tm).

If you want help...

>
> Peter ;-)
>
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> Peter Brett <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Remote Sensing Research Group
> Surrey Space Centre
>
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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