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On Wed, 9 Sep 2015 00:46:05 -0800
"Britton Kerin (britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
<geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> Spent today on this.

Britton,


Thank you very much for doing this.

I started to write a document about the proposed data structure.

I'm going to push it when it gets to a point when it worth sharing.
 
> SWIG itself was somewhat painful, had to rebuild most of pcb as shared
> lib, but it calls into it ok now


> Then come the problems with pcb itself...
> 
> LoadPCB(char *) sounds good but apparently not, it seg faults I think

I'd start it with gdb, and see what is the data, that is missing.

> due to assumptions about things in global Settings already being
> filled in.  Down from there its something of a tangled web, as pcb
> file and settings loading seem strangely intertwined.  Anyone off-hand
> know how/what to call to parse just the pcb file?
> 
> This mess manifests itself to users as well with the strange rewriting
> of the config file by pcb (I'd much rather just get error messages)
> and lack of clarity where the settings are coming from.  Not that I
> have any idea how to clean it up
> 

I hope I'll have some time in the weekend to hack on pcb.

I think it would be nice to have the parser from pcb itself, and then the
other way, read a database, and store the data inside pcb's data structures.

Unfortunately, I have very limited bandwidth to work on this project, but I
hope others will join us to help.

Could you send me your working tree?

Lev

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