Cool. thanks for the links. I've already looked around quite a bit, and am very hesitant to just write more shit on top of other shit. The idea behind this is it's completely mine. So yes, I have a tendency to want to reinvent a few wheels, but I think it'll give me greater satisfaction. The problem with geda, etc., is that it's taking the unix approach -- a buncha little command line tools that somehow make a "system", using text files as communication medium. I hate that, largely because it allows the infectious spread of little files all over your system, encourages people to write scripts from outside the system that probably won't work for you, and exposes the user unnecessarily to the implementation of where you keep files, directories, blabla. I'm more of the windows approach, where you have one integrated environment, and any text you type is from within the application itself, and most application-related data is hidden from the user unless he *really* wants to get at it. (disclosure: I've never actually installed geda, but I tried icarus once and couldn't get it to compile -- another bane of open source stuff I can't stand. I'm not a CS person, so when I download something, I just want it to work, and I don't get off trying to *make* it work...). Another reason for doing this on my own is that I'd like a general-purpose CAD/design framework, of which electrical/IC design is only one part. Also, I think geda simulations are spice-based, which is batch, which is sooo your-father's buick, which I hate as much as text files... aaand another thing is I'm very big on user-experience. I'd like my program to *look* slick, like it belongs in a movie or something. I think that means starting from scratch, since I've not seen any CAD program take any artistic/human/psychological approach to its design.
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