Re: gEDA-dev: SoC Hopeful

[Igor2 <igor2-at-NOSPAMinno_dot_bme_dot_hu>]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Dan McMahill wrote:

>Peter Clifton wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 08:24 +0530, C P Tarun wrote:
>> [snip]
>> 
>> 
>>>I suggest that from Day 1 itself, we decide to build not just these features
>>>into gschem or elsewhere, but also build a Perl-callable library to access
>>>this database, read from it, write to it, etc. With such a library
>>>being included
>>>in the core source base of geda, future tool writing will become hugely simpler.
>> 
>> 
>> "C" Libraries are perl-callable aren't they? I Presume there must be a
>> way to write a language binding for a "C" API.
>> 
>
>I haven't tried it, but swig looks pretty cool.  It is a framework for 
>easily providing perl, scheme (guile), and several other language 
>bindings to a set of C functions.

Also consider libgpmi which doesn't support guile atm, but will do so
soon. Currently supports 8 languages.






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