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Date:	Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:59:37 +0000
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Announcement - openaltium release
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On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Peter Clifton
(petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> On 11 February 2017 at 18:32, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
>> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> > I know there are people looking into file translation - and I released
>> > it
>> > in the hope it would be useful.
>> >
>> > Something you can use in edacore?
>>
>> That's what I was thinking. The hard part of edacore is data models,
>> so it's very interesting to see what can come out of Altium!
>>
>> I know there's a tool converting Altium to KiCAD to also look at.
>
>
> Yes, I did see that (after I wrote the start of this code). I have added a
> number of additional fields they supported to my code, but did not get as
> far as attempting to convert entire schematics or layouts. (Wasn't my
> use-case... I was just after some symbols, footprints, 3D models a vendor
> had in Altium format).
>
>
>>
>> > If anyone wants to contribute, that would also be cool.
>>
>> How about releases? Packaging I mean. Are you interested in doing
>> that, or would you be cool with someone else doing it, and maybe
>> even running a repo elsewhere?
>
>
> Hadn't thought of it, but I suppose were someone interested - it could be
> cool. github was a convenient place to throw the repository initially,
> although I almost went repo.or.cz.  geda-project.org would be possible (if I
> ask DJ, but I also wanted to make it more "neutral" project wise). I figured
> people could work on the repository in any of these places though.
>
> FWIW, the "library" isn't really super useful just yet as a proper library -
> and if it were to be released as a tarball release for packaging - the
> example program (command line conversion tool) probably ought to be renamed
> something like "openaltium" or "altium2geda" or whatever.
>
> Currently the code basically just reads the Altium files, walks the data
> within and printf's geda-compatible output as it goes along. As you say,
> data-models are hard... at some point it would be nicer if it actually
> parsed the Altium file to some internal representation, then emitted from
> that. (Needs work to be clean code!)
>
>
> Final PS... I wonder how long it is before I get legal grief for calling it
> "openaltium" / "libopenaltium"... the title was meant to be descriptive (a
> library for opening Altium files) - but I can sort of imagine Altium might
> be unhappy with the name.
>

AltCtrlium?
CtrlAltgEDA?

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