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On Sep 17, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>> Even John Dotty seemed to agree that we need an alternative to scheme.
> Yes, yes, I could even agree ;) But not two parallel versions with new
> dependencies in one repository.

Why not? They are two separate tools, of wildly different internal design. They are not “parallel versions” at all. They are only superficially the same thing.

> How to support them? How to support
> cross-compiling in this case?

The same way as for any new tool in the kit.

> There is another way. Let's make bindings
> for various languages since gobject model allows this. Let's introduce
> plugins/modules, and we already have modules in scheme.

That seems much harder to me. Remember that gnetlist’s Scheme API is not what you’re so fluent with in gschem.

Let me state that I consider it essential that gnetlist continue to remain backward-compatible, and that means supporting a lot of peculiarities. I’m not the only user out here with customized Scheme. But that means that xorn-gnetlist can be free to do things better by its own standards.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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