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Subject: [geda-user] shortest way towards parsing .pcb files outside pcb
From: "Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:

> This is just what I did with Xorn for schematic files:
>
>    xorn.storage - in-memory representation of schematic objects
>    xorn.geda.read - reads .sch/.sym files
>    xorn.geda.write - writes .sch/.sym files
>    xorn.geda.netlist - creates netlists from schematic files
>    xorn.geda.render - renders schematics to Cairo for display and PDF export (work in progress)
>
> The obvious thing would be to continue that scheme for PCB, too:
>
>    xorn.storage - in-memory representation of PCB objects
>    xorn.pcb.read - reads .pcb files
>    xorn.pcb.write - writes .pcb files

Is this something that's about to happen?  If so I'll stop working on
wrapping the parser from PCB.

Speaking of the parser, I think the easiest way to get an accessible
version of it would be
to add a structure that corresponds one-to-one with what goes in a .pcb file.
The parser could load stuff into that.  The current  "PCBType"
structure (really a sort of global application context) could be
filled in from that structure, rather than incrementally during the
parse.
Would this offend anyone?