Re: gEDA-dev: SoC Hopeful

["C P Tarun" <tcpip-at-NOSPAMdhandanought_dot_org>]

> "C" Libraries are perl-callable aren't they? I Presume there must be a
> way to write a language binding for a "C" API.

Yes they are. In fact, lower down in my mail, that's what I suggested.

> It would not fall out of sync with the changing file-formats, because
> you wouldn't write yet another implementation of the parser,
> data-structures etc, nor would you copy-paste code.
>
> You would have one library which is used by all tools (probably in C as
> this is what the suite mostly uses), then you would provide language
> bindings so people can write the useful utilities they want.

Yes, this is the approach that seems to eliminate rework as well as
retain compatibility across versions and upgrades.

Tarun
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