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For pcb someone suggested to use a pcblib for storage of the layout. If this lib have functions in particular to search thru or extract objects with a certian property value and any changed is notified back to the application I guess it could be used for plugins.



On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 16:02:10 -0400
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.