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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/8/2014 3:18 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:04:34PM -0800, Henner Zeller wrote:
>> I think we should switch to some IPC mechanism (e.g. something over a
>> UNIX domain socket in Unix) to transfer
>> some basic information between programs. E.g. would send an event to
>> CvPcb to fetch a new netist etc. Might be
>> worth considering.
> 
> Isn't that the scope of the kiway stuff?
> 

Yes.  The core code for Eeschema and Pcbnew is being converted to shared
objects (DLLs) and will both run in a single process.  Inter process
communications will no longer be relevant at this point.  Please do not
spend any time working on this.