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Subject:	[geda-user] Gnucap and summer of code
From:	al davis <ad252 AT freeelectron DOT net>
Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:42:56 -0400
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Gnucap (the GNU Circuit Analysis Package) will be participating 
in the Google Summer of Code, as part of the GNU project.

The top priority is plugins to facilitate interaction between 
gnucap and other Free EDA tools, and interaction between Free 
EDA tools in general, including gEDA.

I'm hoping for someone to write a plugin for gnucap, which also 
works with gnucap's translation program, to read and write 
gschem and PCB files.  This will enable gnucap and gEDA to 
interact more smoothly and completely that the gnetlist export-
only facility, and also a path to a portable interchange format 
based on the structural subset of Verilog.

Another benefit of this particular plugin is that it will enable 
interaction between gEDA and other Free EDA programs in 
general, and eventually a generalized import and export 
facility.  Someone is already working on a Qucs plugin, and I am 
also looking for someone to do a Kicad plugin.  When all of 
these are done, there will be a way that all of these tools can 
interact with each other.

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