One of the ideas I have been playing with.... A spin off of my work on back annotation.
I am finishing off a temporary program "backnet" which loads and runs a scheme script at the start to read in a netlist and another to read in an eco file it builds a page with component and pins from the netlist then it runs one of the standard scheme netlist scripts to write an updated netlist. As I said I consider this to be a temporary implementation until I finish modifying gschem to get the schematics to hold the eco changes. The point being though... that having a scripting fron end for importing files would be a first step in importing other file formats. Steve Meier Stephen Brickles using shaun wrote: >>> <snip> maybe the ability to use the file formats of some of the >>> comercial eda tools? >>> > > I haven't heard anyone mentioning "OpenAccess" on this forum yet... > How about an OpenAccess module for gEDA ? The ability to open Cadence > schematics from GSchem - yet still use the Cadence/OpenAccess database. > Imagine begin able to view a schematic in Cadence Composer that you just > modified in GSchem !! That would get people using parts of gEDA if nothing > else since the Cadence schematic editor is not the world's best... > > Of course you'd have to reconcile the licensing agreements of Si2 (keepers > of the OpenAccess code) versus the GPL... > > Stephen > > > >> Steve Meier wrote: >> I think, which often causes head ackes.... >> >> geda is not yet competetive to the comercial eda products..... >> >> companies need tools to get todays job done..... >> >> would it make sense for large electronics companies to invest into >> geda.... again at the risk of hurting my head... i think so. If >> nothing else it puts preasure on the commercial eda tool providors. >> >> what would it take to make the sale to large electronics companies.... I >> suspect having some minimum capability and from my perspective geda >> ain't there yet. >> >> What are these minimum requirements?... good question?... maybe where >> some 30% of a companies designes can readily be implemented with geda? >> maybe the ability to use the file formats of some of the comercial eda >> tools? this is just a guess. >> >> Steve Meier >> >> >> >> Stuart Brorson wrote: >> >>> I was thinking about this one last night.... >>> >>> On Fri, 4 May 2007, David Cary wrote: >>> >>>> Dear gEDA developers, >>>> >>>> Recently I overheard some people talking about gEDA. >>>> One of them brought up all kinds of reasons that gEDA was not "usable". >>>> >>> [..... snip ....] >>> >>> >>>> Maintainability is at the mercy of the gEDA developers. >>>> >>> I'm not going to argue that a business should place development of its >>> critical design tools into the hands of a bunch of hobbiests. I can >>> understand the primal fear which this can trigger in the minds of >>> middle managers (rightly or wrongly). >>> >>> However, it does raise an interesting issue: If you see "free >>> software" merely as zero cost software -- "gettin' sumptin' fer >>> nuttin'" -- then, sure, you're at the mercy of the gEDA developers, >>> and must beg and whine for feature requests. >>> >>> However, the other side of the "free software" coin is that the source >>> is available to you to modify and use as you see fit. Therefore, a >>> design business can certainly *hire* a smart high school or college >>> kid to work on maintaining and extending gEDA. For the $7000 you'd >>> pay for a seat of Protel/Altium/whatever it is these days, you can get >>> much more than a summer job's worth of code customized to meet your >>> *exact* needs. Folks working in electronic design must know somebody >>> with high school kids looking for summer work, right? >>> >>> I don't know why commerical enterprises think they can't become >>> active participants in development of gEDA. Maybe they are so used to >>> being supine receivers of whatever the EDA vendors dish out that they >>> have forgotten how to take control of their own tools? But isn't >>> there some competitive advantage to having control over your own >>> design flow? >>> >>> Stuart >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> geda-dev mailing list >>> geda-dev@moria.seul.org >>> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> geda-dev mailing list >> geda-dev@moria.seul.org >> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-dev mailing list > geda-dev@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev > > _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list geda-dev@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
