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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 12:19:23AM +0200, Roland Lutz wrote:
> 
> That's more the idea of Xorn.  Things which were difficult before
> and are now realistically possible include
> - proper scripting (this was one major incentive for me to start Xorn)
> - solving the red dot problem

Any pointers to what you call the "red dot problem"?




> - allowing nets inside symbols (e.g. for schematic templates)
> - disabling selected netlister stages (e.g. for cascade)
> - passing more structured information to netlister backends (e.g.
> for allowing subschematics to be routed as independent sublayouts)
> - accessing all available schematic information from netlister
> backends (e.g. for passing certain net attributes on to PCB)
> 
> >Seen in this light, Xorn is only 50% finished so far.
> 
> Much less than 50%.  If you see the above list, this should be obvious. ;)
> 
> The only feature Xorn drops is executing Scheme code, which is a
> direct consequence of it not embedding Guile.  This hasn't been an
> easy decision, but the lack of proper Python bindings for Guile and
> the fact that Scheme scripting would be kind of redundant tipped the
> scale.

    Gabriel