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On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 06:03:20AM +0100, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
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> 
> Now you will be hearing, for years, that I want gschem to find all
> occurances of a net, by name, independent of how exactly it became a net. I
> know you don't, but for one, I do find it an error in the design, in the way
> gschem models the world.

A while ago I started to reverse-engineer one schematic which I
needed at work. I worked in a hurry and wrote not very function
style (I'm still learning scheme) though working parser which
creates schematic using something like a home-brew netlist
[1]. (At least it worked in my two projects.) After my issue was
solved, I lost interest to continue the work. Some time after that
I was going to propose to look at it for your needs when we were
discussing your back-annotation idea until recognized how much you
hate scheme (still don't understand, why? move the first paren in
function(x,y,z) to be at the beginning and you will have lisp form
(function x y z)). There are some functions there which find all
connections (without gnetlist and all C mess (glists, geda_lists
and so on) involved). If you'll look at it, you'll find it is
pretty simple (though some things might be done much simpler, and
it contains inline and commit comments in Russian). That is the
way I would change libgeda (leaving C accessors to functions and
data available for C programmers).

Cheers,
  Vladimir

[1] https://github.com/vzh/geda-reverse-netlist/blob/master/define.scm