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On Tue, 22 Dec 2015, John Doty wrote: > > On Dec 22, 2015, at 10:16 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote: > >> It's painful, and I am fully aware of risking a rewrite if the file format changes. I am also fully aware of the fact that libgeda exists and it is invented exactly for this kind of stuff. > > Going through libgeda doesn?t insulate you from change, since the libgeda API is no more stable than the file format. That's clear. By "is invented exactly for this kind of stuff" I didn't mean "invented to avoid (API) changes" but "invented to avoid the need to write parsers by hand" - in the sense that one can use it instead of writing a parser.
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