gEDA-dev: ubuntu packages

[Peter Clifton]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 01:58 +0100, Justyn Butler wrote:

> It's clearly very important to make sure that the thumbnailer gets the
> job done while consuming as few resources as possible, and also as
> fast as possible.
> 
> With regards to this, is there any disadvantage to the thumbnailer
> loading gschem directly?

No - either way, libgeda or gschem loads and boots guile - which is the
most time consuming part of the gschem startup time. (Judging by
valgrind output).

There is one other possibility - not sure its a good idea or not - but
you could write a simple (dumb) .sch / .sym parser and renderer. I think
Peter B might have some python code along these lines, but I can't
remember its status.

Peter