gEDA-dev: Fwd: google soc

[John Doty]

On May 27, 2007, at 2:39 PM, al davis wrote:

> On Saturday 19 May 2007, Dario Talili wrote:
>> Good day!  I was quite late already in applying for Google
>> SOC.  I'd just like to join in the development still even if
>> I don't get paid.  Ales Hvezda told me to just ask people
>> here on when I can start developing & which people I can join
>> to for the project called "Usability improvements for
>> ngspice/Gnucap".  Thanks a lot!
>
> The biggest need related to that is in how the tools work
> together.

The biggest advantage of gEDA is that it plays nice with other tools.

>
> The biggest hole is in the file format translation.  Only a
> small subset of a schematic is properly translated to something
> simulatable.

Simulation isn't the only target for translation.

>
> So .. here's a project suggestion:
>
> Develop "language plugins" for gnucap to read and write gschem
> and PCB formats directly.
>
> Eventually, it can become part of a general purpose translation
> facility.  Unless someone else does it first, after the format
> is stable, will make a driver so the plugins can be used as
> separate translators.

"A program should do one thing well." We have a program that  
translates schematics already: gnetlist. Translation doesn't belong  
in the simulator: its focus should be simulation.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
http://www.noqsi.com/
jpd at noqsi.com