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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,
please let me know how I can help you to speed up the icon stuff.
Also, it would be really great to let people have a newer version of
kicad directly in Synaptic without having to add any (your) ppa repo.
Let me know if I can help there too.

Cheers
Fabrizio


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski
<tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/12/2013 02:26 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>
>> CERN folks, I'd be glad to talk about #7 on your roadmap and see if
>> there's anything I/Wayne and Layne can do to help the situation.
>
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> This is great news!
>
> The proposal we discussed with the main devs some time ago is to first turn
> Kicad apps into DLLs, adding an API that will allow for inter-app
> communication and at some point in the future, embedding
> pcbnew/eeschema/gerbview windows into tabs. The second stage (to be
> discussed yet) is about refactoring all optional stuff into plugins:
> - writing a global plugin manager (most likely an extension of IO_MGR) that
> can enumerate and load both built-in and DLL plugins
> - moving import/export of schematics, 3D models, graphics and non-native
> libraries into DLL plugins. Probably the easiest one is 3D model import,
> with DLLs one can easily bring native STEP/IGES support without having to
> directly link pcbnew against OpenCascade libraries.
> - much later (when #5 is done), adding tool plugins.
>
> I did a quick hack for eeschema & pcbnew DLLs (see attachment), but it's
> incomplete and I'm afraid I won't have time to work on it anytime soon. Any
> help is more than welcome :)
>
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>
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