Re: gEDA-user: EDIF standard?

[r <nbs.public@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Árpád Magosányi <magwas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am interested in the EDIF file format standard.

Perhaps this can of use for you:
http://www.rulabinsky.com/cavd/text/chapd.html

There are many aspects of the EDIF format which are left undefined in
the standard. This makes implementing it quite tricky - you'd need to
compare your implementation with others (which can be far more
expensive than the standard itself).

> I have found it at the ansii download site, but the price is
> prohibitely high for me (and I find ridiculous to ask money for
> standard documents anyways).

The price is $388.00 for IEC 61690-2 (EDIF-4) for a single user
license (of the document itself, it looks like there is no NDA
required). I agree this is quite a lot of money, especially if you are
writing free software. Still, the standard is there, available for
everybody. Perhaps this is where a donation system or a foundation
(GNU?) could help.

regards,
-r


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