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Subject: Re: [geda-user] A lesson from gnet-makefile
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 3:36 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 13, 2015, at 8:54 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> After that is done I want to write another plugin
>> interface that works in parallel to scheme.
>
> I am skeptical of this idea. The problem is that the language drives the data structures that are natural. A different tool/library might sensibly have a different API for plugins, but supporting multiple languages on a common low level base is hard. We already have a very transparent and versatile file format for schematics: it seems to me that there is where different languages more sensibly make contact.

Ok but now you just appear to be evading the other stuff with this
tangent I accidentally provided.

I agree we should not convolute the nice file format and it's clean
interface with a more convoluted way of accessing it half in C in
libgeda and half in scheme only available in gnetlist.

> I think things would be easier now if the original gnetlist implementation had been entirely in Scheme. It’s pretty good, but its limitations stem from the clumsiness of the C/Guile FFI.

All that would do is make you the only developer.

> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
> jpd AT noqsi DOT com
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