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From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Plans for gEDA/gaf (was: [OT] ngspice integration in KiCad)
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On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2016, Edward Hennessy (ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>
>> What are your plans for the gEDA-gaf codebase? It looks like your are
>> rewriting the core library in other languages. Is your plan to make libgeda
>> obsolete?
>
>
> I'd like to have a core library--call it libgeda, call it something
> else--which is used by the gEDA programs and which can be used in other
> programs and scripts, as well.  This library should provide an object model
> and functions for accessing it, for reading and writing files, for rendering
> objects, and so on.  The idea is that no application or tool working with
> gEDA files should have to duplicate basic gEDA functionality.

When you look at the source for libgeda vs the source of gnetlist it
becomes very clear that most of the netlister (excluding the plugins)
is in libgeda. This is helpful because there are times when you want
to walk the structure of a netlist in gschem to do things like
highlight a whole net when a user clicks on it.

Back when Igor2 was working on the back annotation in gEDA he really
needed the ability to call the meat of netlisting ability from gschem.

> The current libgeda doesn't live up to that.  While in theory, you could use
> it in another program for loading gEDA files, in practice, it's so
> intertwined with gEDA and especially gschem internals that in most cases,
> it's easier to just duplicate the required behavior.  I'd like to move the
> parts of libgeda which are interesting to use as a library out into a new
> library which is used both by libgeda and the tools, merge libgeda back into
> gschem, and have the new library take the place of libgeda.

I think that is mostly because few people understand the source well
enough or are motivated enough to actually do anything with it. Others
would do more but see kicad as a better, less hostile place to
contribute.

> My other concern is the scriptability of gEDA.  While gEDA does have an
> embedded Guile interpreter and makes some functionality available to it,
> this approach is somewhat limited; most notably, you can't use the gEDA API
> from a stand-alone script or from a script running within another
> application.  I'd prefer having bindings to the core library available in a
> high-level language and using these both for stand-alone scripts and for
> code which is run within an application.  This way, the core library could
> also contain commonly used functionality which is more naturally written in
> a high-level language, like the netlister.
>

I have always wanted to add C plugins to libgeda.

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