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[Miguel Ángel Ajo <majopela@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoops :-), %s/LordBlick/PTT/g

Miguel Ángel Ajo


On Wednesday, 7 de January de 2015 at 23:31, LordBlick wrote:

> In response to a message written on 07.01.2015, 23:07, from Miguel Ángel Ajo:
> > Hi Lordblick, sorry, I was on a run before, and I actually didn’t look
> > into your code, but stepped into tabs vs spaces (thinking it was a discussion
> > about in-KiCad code).
> >  
> > Your python extra layer is very nice, actually, at the start I was very reluctant
> > on adding another layer and reusing the C++ interface as much as possible,
> > and, even if that’s cheaper, it has a lot of disadvantages:
> >  
> > 1) Resulting code is not very pythonic, and hard to read.
> >  
> > 2) If C++ implementation changes, the available python scripts break.
> >  
> > 3) The auto generated documentation is poor, if we had a python mid-layer,
> > we could have very nice documentation rendered by sphinx or any equivalent
> > pythonic solution.
> >  
> > I must say, that it sounds like an interesting step, and quite motivating,
> > if other people wanted to join forces on this, and discuss about what would
> > be an ideal interface (your implementation seems like a very nice start point
> > to start discusion), I’d love to spend some time on it and re-join forces back
> > to KiCad development.
> >  
>  
> Regardless that I'm different person than PTT, I think that some of most useful  
> code pieces (in example LayerSet with modified by me get_layer()) could be  
> included in swig staff…
>  
> --  
> Best Regards,
> LordBlick
>  
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