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Levente:
> I don't think that STEP is the way.

I don't know step, I just trust Peter Clifton on this.
And, I do have from time to time have to concider the 3D part
of a layout, not any advanced stuff, but do this fit in this
enclosure with theese cables coming in there and such.

> It would really hurt John,
...

It will not hurt John, he does not use pcb (we are talking about pcb 
here re. step).

> and AFAIK, has NO open source library.

From what I think I remeber, has not some open source cad programs 
some support for it ? Perhaps we could join forces.

> The 50+ library is written in AWK, Perl, you name it. I also have one. As

Ahh, welcome to the club.

> pointed out earlier, it is a partial implementation. Just approx 100 lines
> of code. I'm also a script writer boy, but I certainly do NOT want to
> maintain that library. I just want to have an API, and use it. Of course,
...

A parser/lexer should just give you a parse tree, what more do you want ?
What kind of an API do you want ?

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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