On 10/07/2010 09:36 PM, Steve Morss wrote:
Go for it! I think your idea is really neat. I'm a hard core Ruby programmer and have had similar experiences - you can say a lot in a little bit of space, the code is very readable, and coding goes quickly.
On 10/7/10 1:31 PM, Stefan Salewski wrote:Some weeks ago I started working on a very basic schematics editor, compatible with current gschem file format. I am writing it in Ruby, using GTK/Cairo.
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So chances are not too bade that I will continue working on it in the next months -- it is really easy and fun. A basic GUI and export of PCB netlist should be not too difficult. I am not sure if I will ever support hierachical design and other netlist formats -- that may be really complicated? A copy of the Ruby source text, and the png output is here. http://www.ssalewski.de/tmp/pet.rb http://www.ssalewski.de/tmp/out.png
To use it with a web server/web browser does sound like a great tool for collaboration. It goes right around any install difficulties on odd platforms the full gschem has. John Griessen _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user