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John Doty wrote:
> > Bonus points for PCB using the core-library too, so it can "give up"
> > its one preferred on-disk netlist format, and read any useful ones we
> > care to implement a reader for in the core EDA library.
>=20
> I=E2=80=99m quite skeptical of a core library. An agreed-upon external da=
ta
> representation is handy, but tool writers will want their own
> internal representations in their own languages for their own problems.

The purpose of a core library is to take care of the lower-level
things required to deal with the external data representation.

It is key for a core library to make all available data easily usable
for tool writers, not to enforce a particular internal representation.

I expect different tools to use the same core library to do different
things and to use the data provided by the core library in different
ways.


//Peter

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