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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess this is the same idea as with https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-python

2017-11-23 19:28 GMT+01:00 Greg Smith <ecomputerd@xxxxxxxxx>:

> "I was simply afraid that we
> may spent a lot of time petting the SWIG interface, which we will nuke
> it and start from scratch because of inevitable switch to Phoenix."
>
> I agree. I would suggest that the Python API is not quite stable enough to
> freeze the API. If we desire a stable interface/API, one could be written
> in Python itself. I am on the edge of implementing such an interface with
> KiCommand.
>
> KiCommand, in addition to being a command line interface, is a set of
> function calls that *could* be considered an API / Python class when
> complete.
>
> I have reviewed the Python API unit tests and found them to be lacking in
> coverage. I am duplicating those tests in KiCommand, and plan to extend the
> KiCommand tests, which could potentially be applied to the current Python
> API.
>
> If a stable API is desired, there should also be a set of unit tests
> verifying that functionality.
>
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