On Sunday 02 March 2008 17:53, you wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I got your email from the gEDA developers page.
>
> I'ven been using gEDA for about 1 year (moved from EAGLE since I wanted a
> free alternative with open fileformat) and I found two things that I find
> missing:
>
> * Support for a script language (like EAGLE:s ULP script lang.) - Makes
> drawing big circuits like FPGA:s and so on way easier.
Guile Scheme is the official scripting language for gEDA. A (large, but very
useful) SoC project could be to make the Scheme API more complete & better
documented.
> * Improve GUI by adding a toolbar and a controlcenter - A toolbar would
> make it much easier for a beginner, even if I mostly use keyboard commands
> for adding pins, wires and so on there are some commands that you rarely
> use and going thru the meny isn't as easy as toolbar buttons. A
> controlcenter would summarize the different projects and project files
> easier and also create .gafrc files when a project is created.
Please look at xgsch2pcb.
There's already a toolbar in gschem -- check that you haven't turned it off in
your configuration files.
> But since I'm still studying at the university I mostly don't have time
> for regular development on any project. But a friend recently told me
> about Googles Summer of Code, which gives students a chance to help out in
> open source projects during the summer so I wonder if the gEDA project
> (couldn't find it on the GSoC page) plans to attend it? and if so what do
> think of the above suggestions?
If you're interested in doing SoC (which we are indeed participating in this
year) please join the geda-dev mailing list (CC'd).
Thanks for getting in touch,
Peter
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