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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Using Lua to safely read configuration and layout
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> On 8 Feb 2015, at 20:47, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
> 
> Sounds like replacing the scheme with lua could be a bit more than one mythical-man-month of work
> if not done by just one person, so something realistic to consider.
> There's still the C language layer.  The nitty gritty parts.  That needs some architecture
> description written before charging ahead with replacing scheme, since much of that deserves redoing to get hierarchic
> schematics and netlists working well for anything including embedded verilog logic circuit definitions.

In terms of hierarchical schematics, etc. what do you think is missing?  What features would you need and where do you feel the support for them is missing: the file format? gschem? netlister?

Chris