Mail Archives: geda-user/2015/09/12/21:38:57
On Sep 12, 2015, at 6:30 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Evan Foss <evanfoss AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 9:33 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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>>> Nope. It requires a tool that can annotate a schematic. Gschem, as an interactive editor, is not that tool. https://github.com/xcthulhu/lambda-geda is such a tool, and I have used it, but scripting in Haskell is probably not to your liking.
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>> You are right about Haskell.
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> To be more honest I have no real opinion of Haskell having never used
> it. I just don't want to contribute to another fork.
It’s not a fork, but an independent tool. One that potentially do things that others can’t. I’ve used it to expand a hierarchical design into flat schematics (a lot of them). But even its author is uninterested in further development. Consider it proof of principle for an automated schematic to schematic transformer.
It may be that gaf as a Scheme scripting platform can do similar things, but I haven’t looked at it too hard. It seems that Peter Brett has left us with a lot of hidden gems in 1.9. Vladimir is doing a fine job digging them up, but I expect there are more. I’m a little unmotivated to work on scripting for an unreleased version, though.
> As it is I want
> to put some time into pulling stuff from pcb-rnd into the mainline. I
> don't see geda as a competitor to kicad but I want to keep it
> relevant.
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