On Saturday 29 March 2008 08:45:16 Bert Timmerman wrote: > Hi Sven, > > Will you please apply/register with GSoC 2008 __in time__ with whatever > project you choose :) > > And did you have contact with your mentor for the IPC footprintgenerator > project, DJ would be a first choice for PCB. > > I would not worry too much about a copy of the IPC specification for > now, we will find one when the need is there. > > USD 100 used to be a lot of money for us Europeans, and that is some > time ago :) > > I do not mind if you use pcb-fpw tarball as a starting point for your > project, it's GPL'ed free software after all. > > Anyway for your GSoC project I suppose you probably will start from > scratch. > > OTOH, I would be most willing to keep contributing to whatever is chosen > as a GUI-driven footprintwizard or generator to be included in the main > development of pcb. > > Or "we" (the gEDA-pcb community) could decide to keep it a stand-alone > application which can communicate over IPC, or files, with pcb. >
Note that a standalone application which uses PCB's DBUS interface might work
well, and could easily be written in PyGTK (see xgsch2pcb source code for
example).
Peter
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Peter Brett
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Integral Informatics Ltd
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