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On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Svenn Are Bjerkem
(svenn DOT bjerkem AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 19 October 2015 at 15:22, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> Have you tried to use what is already there? (not trying to pick a
>> fight, just asking
>
> No, I have not. I have just started looking into gnetlist scripting in
> scheme because John Doty happened to write up a tutorial on that.
> Obviously gnetlist is not good enough as it is, otherwise xorn would
> not have been written. The other night I was trying to decide which
> back-end to start with, xorn or gnetlist. I fell down on gnetlist
> simply because it has been in the flow for some more time.

I believe Xorn would probably have been created anyway. Some people
just love python that much. I could be wrong.

> As for guile scripting in geda, I found the gaf shell and will try it
> out, but obviously, I am not very deep into it yet. Found some example
> code on the wiki to try out. There is a certain threshold to pass to
> get into guile. This threshold is significantly higher than SKILL in
> Cadence was. But I know that once I pass that threshold, things will
> be easier.

Not everything Cadence has done is good.

> --
> Svenn



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