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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Netlist export is a key feature of every schematic editor. So is
multi-sheet support. These aren't random extra features, they are a normal
part of any modern schematic editor.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018, 12:45 Ouabache Designworks <z3qmtr45@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski <
> tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> Please, give me a single argument what benefits Kicad would get by
>> having a netlist generator as a separate program. I also asked you for
>> an example of a successful graphical editing application following 'the
>> unix way', but so far you've not answered my question. Does this mean
>> that there isn't any?
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>> Tom
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> EEschema is a schematic editor. You give it a schematic file, it edits
> that file and you save it. Nice simple tool.
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> Now you  want to tack on netlist exporting. Thats fine as long as the
> entire design is in one file but what do you do when you have a multisheet
> design?  Now you need a top sheet that contains the file names for all the
> other sheets. You have to parse out all those names,
> read those files into memory, interconnect them with the existing
> connections before writing out the netlist.  All this has nothing to do
> with editing schematics and should not be included in EEschema.
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> To answer your question: I am not aware of any popular graphics editors
> that do strictly follow the unix way.
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> John Eaton
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