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On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I might have miss read it but I got the impression it was a re-write in 
> python.

The storage backend (the "database" in Peter Brett's design document) 
which makes sure object manipulations are "atomic" (though "value 
oriented" would be more consistent with the philosophy here) is actually 
written from scratch as a C library, but that's because nothing in gEDA 
provides comparable functionality yet.

Instead of having gEDA use libxornstorage directly (which I originally 
intended), I decided to start by picking parts of gEDA and translating 
them to Python, using libxornstorage through Python bindings, and 
refactoring them in the process.  gnetlist was an obvious candidate here 
as it's de facto un-maintainable in its current state.

Roland