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Subject: Re: [geda-user] A lesson from gnet-makefile
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 6:57 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 12:23 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 12, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Translation to the various layout and simulation tools is then a job for gnetlist or xorn. Pcb, having no mechanism to do anything with this data, isn't terribly relevant at present.
>>>>
>>>> Well there needs to be something that works like s_conn and it's
>>>> partners in gnetlist that walks the list mapping the nets but with
>>>> this added metadata.
>>>
>>> Walking lists is easy in Lisp: gnet-makefile.scm has functions like:
>>
>> I understand that but I would really like to go back and do more of
>> this in C.
>
> Please not in libgeda or the geda-gaf core tools. That has tremendous potential to break things. geda-gaf is a mature toolkit in production use: changes to the core should not be taken lightly. New tools and new plug-ins are great. We have a transparent schematic format and powerful scripting mechanisms to give us power and to allow us to keep that power from interfering with each other’s objectives.

We could prototype it via a plugin but in the long term it should
really be in the core. To be honest I find your "don't touch the core
you will break something" attitude kind of insulting. I am not out to
change how we have kept the concept of connections in libgeda and nets
in gnetlist. I just want to mirror the flat net model that already
exists in the core with a more nuanced and yet to be decided
structure.


> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
>
>



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