On 1/30/2013 4:18 PM, Ryan Sturmer wrote:
I would be excited to do a cleaned up documentation of these formats.
Could I get a sense from any developers that are listening, where the
greatest need is? (Does it make more sense to start documenting the sch
library format, the schematic? the pcb format? etc?)
-R
Ryan,
Thank you for the offer. The legacy file formats are fairly well
documented. There are a few missing pieces and some outdated
information. You'll have to dig through the source do get all of the
required information. I'm not sure updating the legacy file formats
since they are going to be replaced.
The board file format was recently changed to a new s-expression style
syntax that is not documented at all. Once the footprint library table
support is finished, the footprint libraries will also be converted to
use the same format. I wrote the code for the new board file format and
I was planning on writing the documentation at some point in future.
You certainly are welcome to write the documentation. The file format
was designed to be human readable so you could probably write most of
the documentation just by opening a .kicad_pcb file with a text editor
and reading it. You can always look at kicad_plugin.cpp for more
information.
There are also plans to change the schematic and library formats as
well. The component library format (call SWEET) is documented and the
preliminary code was written by Dick. The documentation for SWEET can
be found in new/sweet_spec_for_schematic_parts_EN.fodt file in the KiCad
source. There is still a lot of work to do to Eeschema before the new
file formats become the default. I also have a preliminary document for
the new schematic file format that I wrote.
Wayne
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Pinault Nicolas
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Le 30/01/2013 21:32, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit :
On 01/30/2013 01:58 PM, Pinault Nicolas wrote:
Hi,
There is a document describing Kicad file formats on bazaar.
The last
revision is quite old (2011-12-04).
Is this document up to date ?
There are probably two questions to ask here:
1) Is this document in rev control the newest one available by
the same name?
I don't know.
2) Does the newest of this document name address currently used
file formats?
No, there is the "pretty" footprint library format just around
the corner, and the
*.kicad_pcb board format already in use.
Neither is documented, a volunteer is needed for that if it is
to get done. It may never
get done, since those formats are pretty human readable.
Somebody may need to be financially motivated to do it.
I am currently interested in schematic library format. So, I guess I
can rely on the document found on Bazaar.
Best regards,
Nicolas
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