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> 
> On Dec 22, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >> 
> >> I’m quite skeptical of a core library. An agreed-upon external data
> >> 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.

No purpose of a core library is to provide useful functions to access the data.

Then there is also a need to deal with the external data representation but it may be part of the core library or using the core library to access the data. Examples: read *.pcb file, read netlist, graphical utput on screen, output gerber file.


Nicklas Karlsson