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Subject: Re: [geda-user] libgeda Python bindings?
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On Aug 7, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:

> 1. The gschem GUI code is not cleanly separated from the libgeda code; in fact, about half of libgeda is dealing with GUI issues.
> 
> 2. There is some semi-working (e.g., no arcs) support for SVG paths which has been implemented by copying and adapting parts of rsvg.
> 
> 3. The bounding box of text objects can only be determined using the Cairo renderer.  (This is the main reason why libgeda has to know about TOPLEVEL contexts.)  Extracting this functionality from the renderer is not practical.
> 
> 4. .sch/.sym files can only be parsed correctly after executing the configuration files.  (I consider this a major anti-feature.)
> 

Is there a specific portion that we would get the most benefit by refactoring?

Cheers,
Ed