On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 20:42 -0400, Dan McMahill wrote: > > > > On 30/09/06, Ales Hvezda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> >Are there any tools available for converting schematics etc. from the > >> >geda format into other formats, such as PCAD, Orcad etc? > >> > > >> > >> Isn't this going in the wrong direction? We want to encourage > >> users to come to gEDA, not move away. :-> > >> > >> Unfortunately, I am unaware of any conversion tools from gEDA > >> to other tools. However, the gEDA file format is well documented, so > >> if you know the file formats for the other tools, it shouldn't be too > >> hard to develop the necessary converter. > > > > If someone were going to write a conversion utility wouldn't it make > sense to do it as a export option to gschem? It seems like that frees > you from having to write YAGP (Yet Another Gschem Parser).
Are there more than one out there? I thought libgeda was supposed to be the definitive gschem parser. I did think about putting together a flex/bison parser (assuming that isn't what libgeda already uses). I guess to have one definitive parser, we'd need to know what interface would be useful for tools, 3rd parties etc.. PCB's HID system solves the exporter problem nicely it seems. > I'm also wondering if this could be a good project if someone wanted to > extend the guile interface to the point where users could write their > own exporters in guile, but thats probably a much larger scale project. I wondered if we could get the guile bindings to a point where I could essentially use guile to auto-generate schematics etc.. (Not that I especially want to do that, just have the ability to script useful things in Guile). Peter C. _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user