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Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > > I don't have a huge amount of time to work on this - so I'm putting it
> > > out there as is in the hope it is useful to others.
> >
> > Are you saying that you don't really have time and/or desire to
> > actually maintain this library and are primarily publishing a
> > code drop for others to potentially do further work with?
> 
> Sadly, that is probably a fair characterization. Time is real
> limiting factor at the moment.

I don't find it sad. :) I think it's super cool that you publish this
work and I completely understand limited time!


> I know there are people looking into file translation - and I released it
> in the hope it would be useful.
> 
> Something you can use in edacore?

That's what I was thinking. The hard part of edacore is data models,
so it's very interesting to see what can come out of Altium!

I know there's a tool converting Altium to KiCAD to also look at.


> If anyone wants to contribute, that would also be cool.

How about releases? Packaging I mean. Are you interested in doing
that, or would you be cool with someone else doing it, and maybe
even running a repo elsewhere?


//Peter