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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=_FD32D18C-A575-4736-84D9-3EFF4B764B2F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On Sep 11, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Russell Nelson (russnelson AT gmail DOT com) [via = geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > People with actual jobs who need to get them done don't use = undocumented parts of APIs because they knew that will screw them the = next time they need to get actual work done. That=92s preferable. Unfortunately, if it weren=92t for users = contributing software using undocumented APIs, you would never have = heard of gEDA. Most of the gnetlist back ends, including those for = geda-pcb, predate my attempt to document the back end APIs.=20 Incidentally, what I came up with for API documentation is pretty crude, = but it=92s what we have. I=92d love for somebody with better knowledge = of the internals to review and fix it. If you think Scheme is hard, you = should look at the C<->Guile FFI and its use in gEDA sometime :( > Do it right or do it over. Do it with what you can get, or fail. John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ jpd AT noqsi DOT com --Apple-Mail=_FD32D18C-A575-4736-84D9-3EFF4B764B2F Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252

On Sep 11, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Russell = Nelson (russnelson AT gmail DOT com) = [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] = <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>= wrote:

People with actual jobs who need to get = them done don't use undocumented parts of APIs because they knew that = will screw them the next time they need to get actual work = done.

That=92s preferable. = Unfortunately, if it weren=92t for users contributing software using = undocumented APIs, you would never have heard of gEDA. Most of the = gnetlist back ends, including those for geda-pcb, predate my attempt to = document the back end APIs.

Incidentally, = what I came up with for API documentation is pretty crude, but it=92s = what we have. I=92d love for somebody with better knowledge of the = internals to review and fix it. If you think Scheme is hard, you should = look at the C<->Guile FFI and its use in gEDA sometime = :(

Do it right or do it = over.

Do it with what you can = get, or fail.

John = Doty = Noqsi = Aerospace, Ltd.

http://www.noqsi.com/

jpd AT noqsi DOT com

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