gEDA-dev: Clarity or Sanity?

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 13:08 -0500, John Griessen wrote:
[snip]
> > Now you want to update the schematic.  If the changes are 
> > simple, such as component values, it would be nice an easy way 
> > to modify the schematic file to include the changes.  The best 
> > way is a stand-alone program, or maybe something like gnetlist 
> > working backwards.
> 
> 
> Sure.  call a program
> gschemlist
> gbackschem
> gnetbackwards
> gbassack...    well....
> 

> with a  man page and hook it into
> your flow however you like.   Won't break anything or rile anyone.
> 
> Maybe there are better names for it :-)

Obviously the anti-gnetlist should be gtsilten, or perhaps as an
outsider, tsilteng

Whether or not interactive updates are done "online" with DBus, or by
writing to files, and passing a simple "go_re-read_the_file" command via
DBus doesn't make a great deal of difference. You might even do
something clever with the file-change monitoring APIs / frameworks
available (would have to check portability first!).

Peter C.