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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.
> >> 
> >> Going through libgeda doesn?t insulate you from change, since the libgeda API is no more stable than the file format.
> > 
> > 
> > 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’s why I like simple, transparent file formats.
> 
> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
> http://www.noqsi.com/
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Extra layers certainly could be an extra burden. I develop software for micro controllers and once an extra software driver layer is added it is no longer enough to read data sheet and even worse usually usually use dynamic handling there much simpler static handling would be better.

Nicklas Karlsson