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gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> By now, we've implemented working porotypes of two important elements
> of edacore, as alternative projects:
> 
> 1. tEDAx, a cheap-to-implement file format for exchanging data
> 2. EDAkrill, a service to host/share data

This is great!


> What we won't have, compared to the edacore idea (as far as I
> understood edacore from the sparse material available):
> 
>   - a central software library or any attempt to reduce code duplication
> among totally different projects
> 
>   - internal model unification, any attempt to replace native file formats
> 
>   - a single central service for sharing data; my intention is that
> EDAkrill is one of the services available, not the One True Service
> everyone should use
> 
>   - no integration of tEDAx and EDAkrill; developers and users can
> decide to use any one or both, they are independent components

Those are things I would like edacore to achieve, but for now I want
to celebrate the launch of EDAkrill! :) Congratulations. Super cool!


Thanks a lot for your work!

//Peter

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