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Ouabache, your distro does not allow for development or unstable versions?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 08:32 -0700, Ouabache Designworks
> (z3qmtr45 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>> You also have the big issues like the choice of scheme as gEDAs
>> scripting
>> language and the gEDA file formats. Is there anything to gain by
>> changing
>> and if so then what would be better and how do we transition?
>
> I know that some people really like scheme. And I do admit that lisp
> like languages are very powerful and interesting. But they are not very
> popular by average people.
>
> I see the main problem in mixing C and scheme, which makes thinks more
> complicated. Maybe that mixing was not a bad decision 30 years ago, but
> today I would prefer only one single language for all. (Python or Ruby
> seems to be not bad and fast enough, but my impression is that Nim or
> Crystal are even better choices today.)
>
> For File Format: I was thinking about using JSON or YAML beside the
> gschem format. The effort for that should be very low, but currently I
> see no big benefit. XML may be an other alternative.
>



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