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On Dec 22, 2015, at 10:50 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

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> On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote:
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>> On Dec 22, 2015, at 10:16 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
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>>> It's painful, and I am fully aware of risking a rewrite if the file =
format changes. I am also fully aware of the fact that libgeda exists =
and it is invented exactly for this kind of stuff.
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>> Going through libgeda doesn?t insulate you from change, since the =
libgeda API is no more stable than the file format.
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> That's clear. By "is invented exactly for this kind of stuff" I didn't =
mean "invented to avoid (API) changes" but "invented to avoid the need =
to write parsers by hand" - in the sense that one can use it instead of =
writing a parser.

But is it *really* so hard to write a parser for the .sch format? Seems =
pretty trivial to me. Easier than figuring out what an extra layer is =
actually doing and wrapping it in yet another layer to support what *I* =
need. That=92s why I like simple, transparent file formats.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd AT noqsi DOT com



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