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On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:02 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
> I wonder if gschem would be more plugin-friendly if there were more
> operations that acted directly on the schematic you're editing.  PCB
> has a lot of features/plugins that are "editors" of the pcb, but other
> than gattrib most of the other gEDA tools work with a pre-existing
> schematic.

Funny I always thought of that as the reason why PCB it lacks a
coherent concept of a layout.

You don't want peoples plugins to work at a level any smaller in scope
than they have too. That way they are using as few methods of changing
the design as possible.

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