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Subject: [geda-user] guile 2.0: gh transition - call for contributors
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Hi all,

in pcb-rnd scripting is done using libgpmi. GPMI currently has support for 
12 scripting langauges/engines. Guile is one of the engines.

There's been some API change in guile 2.0 and the gh_ prefixed functions 
GPMI uses are gone. I've found

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/docs/docs-1.8/guile-ref/Transitioning-away-from-GH.html

that describes how to forward port, but it's not an 1:1 mapping.

I am looking for contributors to forward port a thin wrapper, about ~240 
lines of C code written for guile 1.8 to guile 2.0. It has 7 gh_ calls. 
There is a unit test to check if the port works.

Please let me know in private if you are interested.

TIA,

Igor2

P.S. Until the forward port, pcb-rnd supports guile 1.8 but not guile 2.0.