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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] gschem interaction from external processes
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Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 15:36:56 -0400
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"Majenko Technologies (matt AT majenko DOT co DOT uk) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> writes:
> As part of this is an automated (by automated I mean you click one
> button in the interface) "Save open schematics and PCBs, Run gsch2pcb,
> Reload open schematics and PCBs from disk, Load new netlist and layout
> to buffer" operation.

Do you really need to save/revert the pcb?  I ask because pcb's
File->Import has been around for a while, and supports Makefiles, so you
could generate whatever script you wanted in addition to the default
update script (or even talk to gschem), and have pcb run that, using the
GUI that the user expects...