On Thursday 31 January 2008, Peter Clifton wrote: > Peter B and I have interest in generic back-end EDA > data-structures beyond those in libgeda, but I don't think > there is really such a thing as a "neutral" file-format.
We'll see ... Gnucap needs universal import and back-annotation. This means gschem, pcb, qucs, LTspice, Hspice, Verilog, VHDL, Freeda, kicad, ....... Peter-B: thanks for the chat on the IRC .. It gave me some really good ideas. Public comment: how something gets impemented is decided by whoever implements it. Tech discussions are for bouncing around ideas, not making decisions. Some ideas are great, some are horrible, but great seeds. The only way you know... I had discussions with the big guys, little focused companies, the original Spice people, and lots of others, including people who want to use gEDA but can't for technical reasons. Pool them all.... > There is no need at all to throw away libgeda (gschem)'s > schematic format, but it would be sensible (if we alter it in > a distruptive way), to take the opportunity to add features > which make future additions possible without major breakage. Individual tools need to be free to do what they want, without being constrained. That's one of the reasons for "externally defined". Probably "externally implemented" too, but when there is a need you never know who will step up. _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
