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On Dec 29, 2015, at 11:01 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:

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> On Tue, 29 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote:
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>>=20
>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 10:09 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via =
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 5:02 AM, John Doty <jpd AT noqsi DOT com> wrote:
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>>>> On Dec 29, 2015, at 9:44 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
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>>>>>=20
>>>>> Your current agenda:
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>>>>> 1. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN GEDA.
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>>>> And yet I have stated that I approve of Vladimir?s plans. So your =
understanding is faulty.
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>>> Of course they promise no changes to functionality
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>> If more of the code was in Scheme, scripting would have more access. =
We could stop arguing and make personalities for different flows more =
easily. If more of gnetlist was in Scheme, I?d have implemented bus =
netlisting by now. So yes, we?d get more functionality.
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> Not as long as scripting is limited to scheme.

I said I=92d have implemented it. I don=92t have a problem with Scheme.

> In theory anyone can learn scheme and use it happily ever after. In =
practice this just does not seem to happen.

So, switch to Xorn as your foundation, or convince a Schemer to =
implement what you want.

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> The plugin approach is a good one. I was for it in PCB (I even =
requested -rdynamic in the old days to make plugins more generic). I =
implemented scirpting for PCB. I do think a lot of user stuff should =
happen in scripts. But I don't think restricting the choice of scripting =
language to 1 helps. Especially if that 1 is not one of the big =
currently-popular ones.

The existing foundation for geda-gaf is based on Scheme. That=92s an old =
decision that I had nothing to do with. I agree it was perhaps not the =
best decision. But I=92m perfectly happy to exploit it, as others have =
been through the history of the project.

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



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