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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, I reread "isolate the launching code."  Scratch my last line.

Adam Wolf
W&L


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Adam Wolf
<adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think I could get this started, for sure.
>
> This is for KIWAYs, right?  Is the last public dev list announcement about
> how to build it still pretty accurate?
>
> Adam Wolf
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> On 03/14/2014 10:00 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>> > I'm working a bit more than an hour a day on the Mac and
>> Ubuntu/Debian/32bit/64bit
>> > "capable of being used as Debian/Ubuntu official" automation effort,
>> but about half of
>> > that time is waiting for things to complete, so I'm looking for a
>> little more Kicad work.
>> >
>>
>> Aren't you a python jockey?
>>
>> Maybe offer to be Dileep's mentor, and see if he will accept your help in
>> working on
>> milestone C).
>>
>> He actually needs someone to do that for his university work, might
>> require a signature at
>> the end.
>>
>> Practically, he will need some help, so if you have the experience, I
>> think he should
>> accept a generous offer from you to help.
>>
>>
>> As I said, I would join your team around the completion of milestone B).
>>  Tucking in some
>> C++ magic under your wxPython work, into the top of the KIWAYs, plural.
>>
>> We need a *multi-project* interface, one that shows all open projects as
>> different from
>> closed projects, and symbolic buttons or panel-lettes which show the open
>> KIFACE tools,
>> such as pcbnew or eeschema, or future.
>>
>> It needs to be able to launch pcbnew or eeschema on any project, and
>> classify it as open
>> thereafter in the GUI.  (Isolate the launching code, it will get replaced
>> later with a
>> Kiway interface.  Simply chain load kicad and pcbnew exes for now.)
>>  After KIWAY
>> inclusion, we can then add a "bring to top" function.
>>
>>
>> We need a place to hook in an ever expanding set of utilities, conversion
>> scripts, and
>> project front ends, gateways to other EDA tools, etc.
>>
>> This will give the stature from which to add more SWIG interfaces in the
>> DLL/DSOs below.
>>
>> Anything else you can think of.
>>
>>
>> Dick
>>
>>
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