X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-TCPREMOTEIP: 207.224.51.38 X-Authenticated-UID: jpd AT noqsi DOT com From: John Doty Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_3D334BE0-C0CD-4042-887F-A35A093ED454" Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] Re: developer excitement? Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 18:30:24 -0600 References: <559edcfa DOT 440d460a DOT 72d9 DOT 29cf AT mx DOT google DOT com> <201507092128 DOT t69LSc2j001777 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <201507120012 DOT t6C0CfnW014811 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <201507120145 DOT t6C1jnc8020051 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <1436950214 DOT 2876 DOT 57 DOT camel AT linetec> <20150715202828 DOT GA17392 AT localhost DOT localdomain> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_3D334BE0-C0CD-4042-887F-A35A093ED454 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Jul 15, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Erich Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) [via = geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > For me gschem is a bit of a black box. If the existing material on = scheme use in gschem could be expanded and enhanced, we are more likely = to lure potential developers into enhancing and extending it,=20 There=92s gschem and gnetlist. =46rom where I sit, gschem is fairly = complete as an editor for graphics with attached metadata. Further = extension beyond a few conveniences would appear to require extensions = of the file format. There=92s not a lot of opportunity to make gschem = more powerful, but better graphics could be nice. The center of both the power and frustration of geda-gaf to me is = gnetlist. If the views into the design it presents contain the data you = need, and you=92ve figured out enough Scheme (not much: I=92m just a = baby Scheme programmer), you can do great things with just a few lines = of scripting. > i.e. it'd be great if we could add more examples to > =20 > http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gnetlist_scheme_tutorial I always intended that to be a first installment. Your encouragement may = get me to write another. > http://wiki.geda-project.org/geda:gschem_ug:extensions > =20 > So, please do go into further detail, it would be of interest to me = and to others I am sure. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_3D334BE0-C0CD-4042-887F-A35A093ED454 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252
On Jul 15, 2015, at 5:39 PM, Erich = Heinzle (a1039181 AT gmail DOT com) = [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] = <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>= wrote:

For me gschem is a bit of a black = box. If the existing material on scheme use in gschem could be expanded = and enhanced, we are more likely to lure potential developers into = enhancing and extending it, =

There=92s gschem and gnetlist. = =46rom where I sit, gschem is fairly complete as an editor for graphics = with attached metadata. Further extension beyond a few conveniences = would appear to require extensions of the file format. There=92s not a = lot of opportunity to make gschem more powerful, but better graphics = could be nice.

The center of both the power and = frustration of geda-gaf to me is gnetlist. If the views into the design = it presents contain the data you need, and you=92ve figured out enough = Scheme (not much: I=92m just a baby Scheme programmer), you can do great = things with just a few lines of scripting.

i.e. it'd be great if we could add = more examples to
 

I always intended that to be a first installment. = Your encouragement may get me to write = another.

 
So, please do go into further detail, it would be of interest to me = and to others I am sure.

John Doty              Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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