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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 20:53:32 +0100 (CET)
From: Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] should we broaden scope of libgeda
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On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> Roland Lutz:
>> On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Peter Clifton (petercjclifton AT googlemail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> On 2 Jan 2016 09:18, <karl AT aspodata DOT se> wrote:
>>>> Wouldn't it make sense to move things (that isn't related to a gui)
>>>> from gschem to libgeda ?
>>
>> It's more the other way round--libgeda contains many things which are
>> related to the GUI and should be moved to gschem.  IMHO, it would make
>> most sense to pull the general-purpose and gnetlist-related functionality
>> out of libgeda and merge the remaining code back to gschem.
> ...
>
> So, what you are saying is mostly that we should leave libgeda as is for
> backward compatibility

There is not much backward compatibility to be worried about--as far as I 
know, the programs in the 'geda-gaf' repository are the only users of 
libgeda.  The point is that libgeda is currently not very useful as a 
general-purpose library because it it is too gschem-/gnetlist-specific, 
and it can't easily be changed because gschem and gnetlist would have to 
be changed accordingly.  So it is basically a part of gschem/gnetlist.

> and move xorn to a more finished state, as far as scripting is conserned 
> ?

Yes, that's the idea.