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On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:56 PM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, John Doty wrote:
>>> As far as gEDA/gaf is concerned, the logical next step would be to =
have gschem use the Xorn data structures and storage library.
>>=20
>> No, please, no. Make a new xornschem. This is an opportunity to =
modernize the GUI, too. But please don=A2t make drastic changes in how =
existing production code works.
>=20
> This isn't about the GUI at all.  The existing code works in =
excruciatingly spaghettine ways which make improvements like Igor2's =
back-annotation much more complicated than necessary.  The changes I =
suggested should, if done correctly, not change the existing user =
experience in any way.  However, they would make accessing the =
application's behavior on an intermediate level (more internal than =
Guile scripts can access, but higher than C code) much easier than =
before.
>=20
> I see your point about not breaking existing workflows, and I realize =
I might have not been conservative enough about that in the past.  =
However, this should not mean that we can't ever change the programs' =
internals; it just means we should be very careful when doing so.

I=A2m happy to have both Vladimir=A2s conservative refactoring and your =
radical restructuring. I fear that entangling them will create a mess.

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



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