On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:49:06PM -0700, Steven Michalske wrote: > > This is why I use yaml to store data. It was designed to be human > readable. It holds most high level data structures. And is very > low bloat. You can tag the yam code to say that this is a particular > data structure, like a footprint or via > > It allows for references. So all vias of a type could point to the > same data and then we only would have to change one data structure > to change all of the vias with the same tag. > > There is a c library libyaml. > > And many other languages have libraries, perl python ruby and many > more. Although I did not see an official lisp library. >
I've glanced through the YAML wikipedia page and it looks pretty good. I'd vote for it, anyway. > But before we pick a file format we need to decide what we want to > store. And then choosing how we want to store it. > I'm not sure this is true. We know what we need to store in a vague sense - traces and components, footprints and layers, DRC rules and netlists. Any decently-extensible language should let us add things as needed. Andrew _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
