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On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote:

>
> On Dec 29, 2015, at 10:09 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:02 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 9:44 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Your current agenda:
>>>>
>>>> 1. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN GEDA.
>>>
>>> And yet I have stated that I approve of Vladimir?s plans. So your understanding is faulty.
>>
>> Of course they promise no changes to functionality
>
> If more of the code was in Scheme, scripting would have more access. We could stop arguing and make personalities for different flows more easily. If more of gnetlist was in Scheme, I?d have implemented bus netlisting by now. So yes, we?d get more functionality.

Not as long as scripting is limited to scheme. In theory anyone can learn 
scheme and use it happily ever after. In practice this just does not seem 
to happen.

The plugin approach is a good one. I was for it in PCB (I even requested 
-rdynamic in the old days to make plugins more generic). I implemented 
scirpting for PCB. I do think a lot of user stuff should happen in 
scripts. But I don't think restricting the choice of scripting language to 
1 helps. Especially if that 1 is not one of the big currently-popular 
ones.