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On Wed, 9 Sep 2015, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I mean hardcoding "our library is a directory" in gschem was
> shortsighted.  We need to take that out and replace it with something
> more flexible.

> The first step in this case is changing the exsting tools so that a
> new tool can be added.  We need to replace the "library is a
> directory" code in the existing tools with something that lets us add
> a "this tool provides our library".

libgeda (and therefore xorn.geda) already support this.  See the Scheme 
procedures "component-library-command" and "component-library-funcs" and 
the class xorn.geda.clib.CommandSource, respectively.