RE: gEDA-dev: some suggestions

[Stuart Brorson <sdb-at-NOSPAMcloud9_dot_net>]

> A couple of years ago I felt the same urge, to create a geda-config GUI
> based on Glade and some C callback code.
>
> Since I learned that parsing is better done with any other language than
> C, I gave up this urge.

Yup, doing anything involving string processing in C is barbaric.

> IMHO, the way to do this right is to parse the system RC files for all
> the configurable features that do exist (there may have been features
> added since the previous release, as hinted by Stuart), and after this
> parsing is done look for existing project RC files, and have the
> features that have a meaningful value parsed.

Actually, any geda-config utility need only link to the guile stuff to
read and parse the RC files.  All the necessary guile code already
lives in libgeda.  The geda-config utility would only need to get the
various config parameters from guile, run a GUI to show them to teh
user & allow him to change them, then write out the resulting, edited
RC file.

Stuart


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