gEDA-user: Has anyone used SSOP28.fp?

[L.J.H. Timmerman]

Hi DJ and all,

First let's get this specified more in detail before this gets out of
hand.

What sort of content should the parser be agnostic of ?

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:06 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Shouldn't the file format be forward compatible with a warning?  if
> > an unknown parameter is introduced in the file format, pump out a
> > warning and continue?
> 
> The problem is that pcb's file format is entirely defined by a yacc
> grammar.  I.e. the grammar says "expect FOO or BAR or GRILL here" and
> if you give it any other token, you get a syntax error.  A better file
> format would be something where the syntax is independent of the
> content, like what the menu resource uses, or (gak) XML.  Then we
> could parse the whole file into a data structure (all at once or
> piecemeal), and interpret (or not) the data we get.
> 
> Perhaps we could change the parser to be content-agnostic, though.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> geda-user mailing list
> geda-user at moria.seul.org
> http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user