Re: gEDA-dev: gnetlist as one way path?

[al davis <ad136-at-NOSPAMfreeelectron_dot_net>]

On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Steve Meier wrote:
> To answer the following critique:
> > "gnetlist" provides a one way mechanism from gschem out,
> > essentially based on something like a plug-in for the
> > output format.
>
> I have a modified version of gnetlist that I have been
> calling backnet.
>
> backnet uses a front end scheme file to construct the libgeda
> data structures from something. Currently I have a script for
> importing pads netlists.
>
> backnet also can run an intermediate scheme script to then
> manipulates the libgeda data structures. Again the script
> that I have imports an eco file from pads.

cool...

What you are doing differs from my original VHDL proposal in one 
significant way:  The choice of the middle format.

I also added a requirement that:

backnet <input | gnetlist >output

must be lossless if input and output are the same format.

By "lossless" I mean from the viewpoint of how the formats are 
used, not necessarily identical files.


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