gEDA-dev: Pinning down libgeda

[Peter TB Brett]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 03:19:10 Dan McMahill wrote:

> I'd see this actually as an opportunity to build the internal database
> in a good way and then provide a more sane and complete scheme api for
> accessing the database.

The way it's currently mapped out in my head:

 - libgeda provides a C API for doing stuff like netlisting.

 - the API is designed to be easy to write bindings for

 - bindings can then be written in <LANGUAGE>, but gnetlist & friends could
   easily be kept for backwards-compatibility.

I'm a big fan of removing Guile from libgeda's dependencies, and providing an 
API to do the things that Scheme is currently used for.  This means my Python 
BOM/inventory management program won't have to pull in the whole of Guile 
*and* Python every time it starts up.

Peter

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