Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

[Stephan Boettcher <boettcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan Salewski <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 09:30 -0600, John Doty wrote:
>> All of this discussion of formats misses the shining example that's
>> already in gEDA: the schematic format.
>
> Yes. Recently I begun studying that format and started writing a parser
> in Ruby -- really easy.
>
> One disadvantage of that format may be:
> We have lines starting with a letter followed by up to 16 decimal
> numbers -- hand editing such lines may be difficult. Not a problem for
> me, I do not intend hand editing.

Yes, the gschem file format is much less accessible for
hand/awk/sed-editing than the pcb file format.  

I would not like that to change - on the pcb side.

-- 
Stephan


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