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Hi all,

status update:

On Mon, 13 Feb 2017, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

> 2. what's the minimum we'd need to do for a working "edacore" setup:
>
> http://repo.hu/projects/pcb-rnd/devlog/20170213_edacore1.html

people have downloaded these docs from 40 unique IPs, but I got 0 
feedback - sort of "as expected".

I contacted the edacore project, but it seems our vision totally differs, 
so we should just do two different projects.

I also seeked some of the gEDA project leaders, hoping we could do this 
together, but I failed.

So I started to do it alone, hoping that it would be useful and/or adapted 
by other projects (including, but _not_ limited to gEDA members). The cost 
was so low that even if it ends up just "yet another file format" only 
one tool uses, it's still not a big loss.


The name is tEDAx - Trivial EDA eXchange. Focusing on trivial-to-implement 
file exchange for the common-minimum data. Project page and 
specificaitons: http://repo.hu/projects/tedax


A hint on costs of adoption: I wrote the reference parser and a tEDAx 
netlist (schematics) importer plugin in pcb-rnd in about 70 minutes total.

Why should we care: short term I believe tEDAx can solve a serious design 
falw in our gschem* -> pcb* flow that I will describe in another mail in 
another thread.



*** HELP NEEDED ***

I don't have high hopes, but just in case: I need help from USERS (and/or 
developers) experienced with spice and gnucap and the circuit simulation 
flow in general.


Regards,

Igor2

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