2012/4/12 Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> > The changes to PLUGIN should be "additional functions for MODULEs". I > like what we have > for BOARDs now. >
Ok, I thought about this idea at first, but tried to make it too abstract ;), it's simpler this way. > > The new work entails abstracting the *loading* and *saving* of a MODULE > from/to a "MODULE > library" (aka MODULE collection). > > So I would expect to see MODULE* in most of the new function prototypes. > > Along with loading and saving, one may have to know which MODULEs are in a > library, so in > comes MODULE *enumerating or listing*. > That would be extra functions for enumeration/listing, for example List(library_name)=>list of[module names] > > I'm not saying anything positive or negative about caching, or when or if > it should > happen. I am open to suggestions on that. > Not ready to say anything about that, probably is unneeded to change anything there at this moment. May be in the future with a library manager / HTTP_LIB /whatever, could start making sense. > > I am not really even saying that this goal is achievable, since I have not > yet spent > sufficient time on it myself. In the near term, if we can jam in this > PLUGIN interface, > and re-position PCBNEW on top of it with respect to MODULE access, then we > would then > pickup the following types of MODULEs, even without converting them before > using them: > > > *) legacy KiCad modules > *) s-expression module in nanometers > *) Eagle module libraries ? > *) GEDA libraries ? > > > I think it's totally achievable. > Conceptually the work is like cutting an electrical cord, and outfitting > it with a defined > set of connectors, so that you can replace the downstream portion without > change to the > upstream portion. > > Yes, it's what I understood :) > Yes, we are talking about a software interface. > > We have done this successfully for BOARDs. It works, in 45 minutes I could > put even the > specctra round-tripper into a PLUGIN. Most if not all the import export > operations also. > > The question is now, can we do it for MODULEs from libraries, and do it in > PLUGIN, or does > it take a lot more? > > I think it could, I'll finish my proposal and submit the patch to get opinions. -- Miguel Angel Ajo Pelayo http://www.nbee.es +34 636 52 25 69 skype: ajoajoajo
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