Re: gEDA-user: Switch gschem to another scripting language?

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Doty wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Peter Clifton wrote:
>> What really pains me - is that development has pretty much stagnated -
>> because we can't seem to get _anything_ new into the suite to help
>> provide basic functionality other packages take for granted.
> 
> 1. gEDA is fundamentally *superior* to those packages.
> 
> 2. The design of gEDA is such that the flow-dependent stuff should be  
> implementable and implemented via scripted modules. So, we can have a  
> set of modules for hobbyist-scale projects, and a different set for  
> VLSI, for example.


I like this architecture concept.

The "basic functionality"
common in commercial EDA packages could be programmed in a project manager app that drives gnetlist and gschem
to create back annotated schematics and other ordinary commercial EDA features.

It would be nice if this manager app could be cloned
by users to be reworked to suit them too.  It could be just a GUI with a particular set of "looks or arrangements"
of windows and script hooks to gschem, gnetlist, pcb whatever and a scripting language like tinyscheme or python,
or both.

Other users could drive gschem with their own shell, awk, lisp, scheme, perl, python, ruby, lua scripts.

The clean and simple graphic editor function of gschem can stay that way.

John Griessen


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