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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] should we broaden scope of libgeda
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Comments: In-reply-to Roland Lutz <rlutz AT hedmen DOT org>
   message dated "Sat, 02 Jan 2016 20:53:32 +0100."
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Roland Lutz:
> 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 

Well, then don't worry the users users.

> libgeda.  The point is that libgeda is currently not very useful as a 
> general-purpose library because it it is too gschem-/gnetlist-specific, 

Yes, I realized that.

> 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.

Ok, I'm in. But I have to fix my dev box first, a week or so.

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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