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Date: | Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:35:39 +0100 |
From: | "Nicklas Karlsson (nicklas DOT karlsson17 AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] A fileformat library |
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> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:47 PM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote: > > > > On Dec 22, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > > > >> John Doty wrote: > >>>> Bonus points for PCB using the core-library too, so it can "give up" > >>>> its one preferred on-disk netlist format, and read any useful ones we > >>>> care to implement a reader for in the core EDA library. > >>> > >>> I’m quite skeptical of a core library. An agreed-upon external data > >>> representation is handy, but tool writers will want their own > >>> internal representations in their own languages for their own problems. > >> > >> The purpose of a core library is to take care of the lower-level > >> things required to deal with the external data representation. > > > > I’d prefer to make the external representation transparent. > > > >> > >> It is key for a core library to make all available data easily usable > >> for tool writers, not to enforce a particular internal representation. > > > > But of course, it will use a particular representation. A core library for C++ isn’t going to be useful to an AWK programmer. > > > > One thing that’s nice about our .sch format is that it is easy to read and write from pretty much any language. There’s no need for any extra layer. > > Yes but with an extra layer more people can play with files made in > PCB. Why force them to write and maintain a whole second library to > handle our file format? Look at the number of utilities that people > have written to create footprints and things via their own file > parsing code. That is a lot of duplicated effort that will be broken > when we revise the format. I know you don't use it but I do and I can > tell you there are things we need the format to represent that it just > can not right now. There should be no need to change file format if a "core library" is implemented.
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