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Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:46:07 -0600
From: John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] translating gschem, gnetlist, pcb data
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On 12/09/2011 07:00 PM, John Griessen wrote:
> I want
> to translate and import and export layout data between Kicad and geda-pcb
and gnetlist-pcb and Kicad netlist.
.

a while back Al wrote:
"The project is language plugins for gnucap.  A language plugin
can read and write one format.  I would like to recruit someone,
maybe four people, to write four such plugins.  They are:
1: gEDA/gschem
2: gEDA/PCB
3: Kicad schematic
4: Kicad layout
  The Verilog format is sufficiently rich as
to be able to convey all relevant information to and from any of
the formats, so it could be used as a neutral interchange
format.

What's involved in making a gnucap language plugin Al?
I can spend some time on it in between things if I get first
partial results in twenty hours of work, which seems possible with python
or perl.

John