Re: gEDA-user: Introduction and some questions/thoughts on gEDA/gaf...

[Paul Bunyk <pbunyk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi Paul,

Hi Ales!

>         Yeah, this has come up in the past.  What sort of things would
> you do if gEDA stuff had the necessary scripting hooks to allow it to be
> extended?  

To begin with, I'd integrate, say, gschem/gnetlist/spice more, as in,
at least add buttons to gschem (with scheme callbacks) to netlist and
run spice. Then it might be easy enough to add "select nodes on
schematics and plot voltages on them from spice sim"... This type of
stuff.

Further down the line, we can start using parameterized attributes,
with right hand side being a scheme expression, evaluated during
schematic redrawing and netlisting.

> PS. I'm beginning to think that virtually everything that can be done
>     interactively or via the command line should have a scripting hook.

Yes, in general one should be able to script schematic generation
completely. Then we can start talking about fully parameterized
schematics generated on-the-fly. And also, it is so much easier to
apply modifications to scheme code than to C (and recompile).

Just my $0.02,

Paul B.

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