Re: gEDA-dev: Fwd: google soc

[Steve Meier <smeier-at-NOSPAMalchemyresearch_dot_com>]

Ideally, the way to read and write geda files is to link to libgeda and
use libgeda functions to do the work. This way if and when the file
structures change the code won't have to be re-written.

Steve Meier

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 hole is in the file format translation.  Only a 
> small subset of a schematic is properly translated to something 
> simulatable. 
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
> There is someone working on improvements to gtkwave, hopefully 
> including some analog extensions.  So far, it's just digital.  
> Even so, I do not expect any more than viewing simple 
> waveforms.
>
> There is a team working on a graphic simulation front/back-end 
> in python.  They are just getting started and sometimes post on 
> the gnucap-devel list.  It is too soon to tell how this will 
> develop.  There is a need for a program that processes, 
> manipulates, and displays simulation data.  This could develop 
> to that.
>
> There have been many starts to do a simulation GUI, but none 
> have been successful, probably because the basic concept 
> doesn't make sense.  So far, all of them that I have seen seem 
> to be targeted at permanent beginners.
>
>
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