gEDA-user: Design Flow Roadmap starting point

[John Griessen]

DJ Delorie wrote:
[Al Davis]>> Design the file format first,
>> then the data structures.  The file format should be designed 
>> as a language for expressing what you want to express.
> 
> PCB has a second format it uses called a "resource file".  It's a
> semi-lisp-ish format that allows for arbitrarily nested data, without
> the complexities of XML (the whole parser is about a page of code).
> It could be used to hold pretty much anything, but it isn't "designed
> for the data".
> 


  Couldn't resource file be used with the plugin mode of programming to extend function?
Since it is LISP-ish it seems closest to a common file format language with gschem, which uses guile.  Are there rumors of 
planning to stop using guile?

John G

PS more condensing and grouping of these ideas done at the wiki.
http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:design_flow_and_hierarchy_roadmap