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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] should we broaden scope of libgeda
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Peter Clifton:
> On 2 Jan 2016 09:18, <karl AT aspodata DOT se> wrote:
> > Wouldn't it make sense to move things (that isn't related to a gui)
> > from gschem to libgeda ?
...
> For my point of view, moving some of the low level code from gnetlist, into
> libgeda makes sense. It could start to allow a framework where we use
> plugins that apply some of the semantic attribute meanings at a point
> shared between the tools. (Meaning you can have smarter behaviours in
> gschem whilst those workflow specific plugins are loaded). I would love to
> see things like slotting move to being a plugin, for example.
...

Interesting point.

I stumbled upon this when looking into this (from the (priv) thread 
that was stopped by DJ (I think because my reply didn't come through)):

John Doty:
> Karl Hammar;
...
> > A midterm solution would be to write a gnetlist backend which copies
> > used symbols into a given directory. That could be a nice way to learn
> > scheme and gnetlist perhaps.
> 
> Gnetlist doesn't have an API through which it can find that data.
> The gaf command, might, though. As far as I know, nobody is
> exploring the possibilities of scripting gaf.
...

So currently, if I want to write an "get all syms that this sch file 
referencs"-program I have to do it in c or don't use libgeda at all.

I thought that kind of program could be a nice way to learn a 
little scheme, but the infrastructure wasn't there.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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