On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Charles Lepple wrote: > On Saturday, July 6, 2002, at 10:46 AM, Stefan Petersen wrote: > > > If you want Guile, then tell me fast, because next release I also plan to > > remove all strange defines in the code due to Guile. > > > Here's another possibility to think about: The Lua scripting language is > fairly lightweight, and would be easy to embed in the source code for > gerbv.
And On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Stefan Petersen wrote: > > > As noted, Guile is no longer default when configuring/compiling gerbv. > > The backend was lagging behind the parser, noone was interested in using > > the backends and Guile installation always gave people headache. If you > > want Guile, then tell me fast, because next release I also plan to remove > > all strange defines in the code due to Guile. > > although I haven't used it, I could envision custom DRC checks being done > with a scripting language. There where/are two problems with the Guile support in gerbv: 1) The lack of support from package vendors and the state of flux Guile in 2) The guile glue code was lagging behind considerable and I had no motivation to get it into shape. So yet-another-scripting language wouldn't help two directly. Regards, /spe /----------------------------------\ ! Stefan Petersen, MSc EE ! \ ! http://www.stacken.kth.se/~spe/ ! \_________________________ ! spe at stacken.kth.se ! / ! umop apisdn 'sdoo ! ! stefan.petersen at home.se ! / --------------------- \----------------------------------/
