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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Even though it never got much attraction, I do like this tool here,


http://www.dwheeler.com/dbus/


and feel it would be a good tool to rely on if DBUS were to be added to 
Kicad. The CIDL is cleaner than the "dbus introspective XML", yet a 
person can generate the xml using this tool.

I am thinking that reading XML files as a human is not fun.




I could see a complete set of *.cidl files being developed way before 
any code is even written. This would form the basis of a meeting place 
for external software packages, and it would define objects, interfaces, 
methods and attributes accessible within Kicad.


The main point of the *.cidl files would be to *design* the interfaces 
before coding anything. Also, this design would be valuable in any 
future work within Kicad, if for no other reason than it would help with 
the document existing and possible future document models.



This is something I am interested in. I also see it being dove-tailed 
into a task involving a new file format and data tree for PCBNEW.


I may have some time later in the year to start this. I am currently 
bringing a new ARM board to market that was designed with Kicad.


Dick