gEDA-dev: [pcb] physical layer stack

[DJ Delorie]

> I guess it's all just a matter of pretty printing so all can be made
> happy. I just hope there will be a way to write tools for
> manipulating the file (preferable without using pcb source code).

Worst case, pcb will have a command-line option to convert the file to
a more readily parseable format.  Maybe an option to produce a perl
source file that creates a matching internal data structure.

> With your own custom parser? Are there any examples of what you have in mind?

PCB already has such a parser, which is used for the menu system.  See
pcb-menu.res in any pcb source tree or installation.