On Thursday 25 December 2008 10:59, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> Good point.  But doesn't gnucap handle SPICE netlists?  If I draw up
> some example circuits, and then netlist them using spice-sdb, doesn't
> the resulting .cir file "just work" in gnucap?

sure .... in the same sense that DOS software runs on windoze.

I have hoped for a long time that we would shoot for more than that.

> In any event, I can put in the README or in comments embedded in the
> .sch file that the circuits will work either in gnucap or in ngspice.

The NGspice developers have never shown any interest in gEDA, at least 
not in public.

If we want gEDA to be more than just schematic and board layout, we need 
to consider having more tools work together, in a way that fully 
realizes the best of them all.  Working with gnucap only in the 
backward compatibility mode doesn't do that.  Treating gnucap and 
ngspice as equal doesn't do that.



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