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John Doty wrote:
> > > It’s based on a completely new foundation (“xorn”: don’t ask me what that is or what it does, it’s very murky to me).
> > 
> > Probably best to look at what it is before passing comment.
> 
> I have.  I can’t make sense of it.  It seems to be a peculiar
> custom OO framework for a job that isn’t naturally OO.

The significant difference with xorn is that it allows treating
the various existing objects which exist in the gEDA data model
for a long time in a structured way, from C, Python and other
languages.

There is nothing inherently object-oriented about the xorn C code,
but in Python the gEDA objects are indeed Python objects, because
that makes sense.


> as far as I can tell, nobody else understands it well enough to
> write a back end, unlike gnetlist proper.

How do you think that could change?


//Peter