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 <z3qmt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 9:21 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski < > tomasz.wlostow...@cern.ch> wrote: > >> >> 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? >> >> Tom >> >> >> > EEschema is a schematic editor. You give it a schematic file, it edits > that file and you save it. Nice simple tool. > > 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. > > > > To answer your question: I am not aware of any popular graphics editors > that do strictly follow the unix way. > > > John Eaton > > >
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