X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=ZAHLEgOyK6i6VhcaetQMv/9W+399YcWmWOGMp2IUAow=; b=dkvLR6+NHHZuLiZXQEolNH/ah2sdhVUmnY3E9jjmI7IEqlIoStzKRI6gsm/hlPAIdo v6+oVwVKsQ7JkaoKDa8F330+gjpWyhl5piCNBr53dnbjrewDxAG9fif+4+x8Fe9H274F EGAYQ4RSbudyHMfVndXF6JVZzCb6HmEgRh2XjbMEjETcOZYA/7Ogvlm+maWjiWxMkiHa EY3qB1Wyq1JZi4rK9eFBwf3oPsmEd9uRp4s1ikism2qXh6lREhFXkK9O++pek3YaUMXH VR4i+lBauxpefm44q1I6sS5/T4GPRx6LeVh57il8hVKxTEb/giPx377+YrAUKhfkaFTh TlFA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=ZAHLEgOyK6i6VhcaetQMv/9W+399YcWmWOGMp2IUAow=; b=q3Pd3qFUxPS7SPcpXIrwIZV3W75HMvf1wL5/1ah/c2yrWKrzwq05EgTV7jsnjinns+ JUE4SG2yVt5jfiIa8PsljvJnkhsDx/NE/OidsMNiJd86Nvedy96vYsdnvKdr/0e3DLj7 z2igsJEE7ppskDu3IVI/OUID9pUyJY5u254zFjkFm4hrzPlHrGmprT4tDdvhQFY3N62e Y/HZj4svrwu5uTgk4eoakHkjTNV1O2y9eccVOPE8YvWBRpXE8q+vP3Op76QA8yreBJl3 /Ve7DGD3157l+VGRlVE1qmsJrHcsOphLLTKOFdkVN0kajma8sOwXCIV/3hg7Qncj7BJ6 w7fg== X-Gm-Message-State: AMke39nCJXlsPJTTaqgZfcB2NNomoVY71gfR/nl9TJK92PUvxIa0SEm2qKbyt2LkdwL4CFaEzORBm18SxquYug== X-Received: by 10.46.22.18 with SMTP id w18mr1095252ljd.86.1486857578356; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:59:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170211174559 DOT GM21523 AT foo DOT stuge DOT se> <20170211183257 DOT GP21523 AT foo DOT stuge DOT se> From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:59:37 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] Announcement - openaltium release To: gEDA users mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 10:57 PM, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > > > On 11 February 2017 at 18:32, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via > geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> >> Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] >> wrote: > > >> >> > I know there are people looking into file translation - and I released >> > it >> > in the hope it would be useful. >> > >> > Something you can use in edacore? >> >> That's what I was thinking. The hard part of edacore is data models, >> so it's very interesting to see what can come out of Altium! >> >> I know there's a tool converting Altium to KiCAD to also look at. > > > Yes, I did see that (after I wrote the start of this code). I have added a > number of additional fields they supported to my code, but did not get as > far as attempting to convert entire schematics or layouts. (Wasn't my > use-case... I was just after some symbols, footprints, 3D models a vendor > had in Altium format). > > >> >> > If anyone wants to contribute, that would also be cool. >> >> How about releases? Packaging I mean. Are you interested in doing >> that, or would you be cool with someone else doing it, and maybe >> even running a repo elsewhere? > > > Hadn't thought of it, but I suppose were someone interested - it could be > cool. github was a convenient place to throw the repository initially, > although I almost went repo.or.cz. geda-project.org would be possible (if I > ask DJ, but I also wanted to make it more "neutral" project wise). I figured > people could work on the repository in any of these places though. > > FWIW, the "library" isn't really super useful just yet as a proper library - > and if it were to be released as a tarball release for packaging - the > example program (command line conversion tool) probably ought to be renamed > something like "openaltium" or "altium2geda" or whatever. > > Currently the code basically just reads the Altium files, walks the data > within and printf's geda-compatible output as it goes along. As you say, > data-models are hard... at some point it would be nicer if it actually > parsed the Altium file to some internal representation, then emitted from > that. (Needs work to be clean code!) > > > Final PS... I wonder how long it is before I get legal grief for calling it > "openaltium" / "libopenaltium"... the title was meant to be descriptive (a > library for opening Altium files) - but I can sort of imagine Altium might > be unhappy with the name. > AltCtrlium? 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