Hi John, Russell Shaw wrote: > There's no reason why a schematic and pcb editor can't have tight > coupling and still interact with all external tools. John Doty wrote: > The architectures are different. To flexibly interact with external > tools, you need the interfaces to be simple text files. Anything more > complex is a serious barrier, in general. What do you mean by "the architectures are different"? The reason I ask is that I am sceptical that a different architecture is required to allow IPC. There are already two IPC architectures in place between gschem and PCB: 1. Text files. 2. The user. I think the general consensus is that these are good IPC mechanisms; they can get the job done. However, they are poor for a variety of use cases that people have. For some of these, the biggest disadvantage is that they are too slow. Cheers, Rob
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