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On Sun, 12 Feb 2017, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
> or we wait for some magic "everyone uses this common protocol/file 
> format/API/lib/mechanism" and have the first solution to offer in 
> t=infinite. (I strongly believe users won't wait till t=infinite.)

I don't think that would even work.  Projects tend to have strongly 
diverging ideas about what a schematic etc. actually is, and that's a good 
thing.  Take gEDA's idea of having a drawing program (gschem or PCB) which 
draws lines whose nets are later determined by connectivity vs. KiCad's 
idea of having an "invisible" net affinity for lines.  Or gEDA/gaf's idea 
of attributes being attached text objects with a special syntax vs. 
attributes being pre-defined object properties; or a schematic-centered 
approach vs. a project-centered approach.  People have different ways of 
thinking and different needs, and this way they can pick the project which 
fits them best.

The technical part of having common data structures could be realistically 
solved (this is where Xorn would step in handy), but it wouldn't magically 
solve the semantic differences.  And that's, IMHO, the hard part.