Interest in xfig

[thi <ttn@mingle.glug.org>]

Telford Tendys writes:

 > Does anyone else use xfig? Would this be something worth persuing in
 > a more serious manner?

you might want to check out gEDA (GNU EDA tool suite), which includes
gschem, a schematic editor.  gschem uses libgeda which uses guile,
although not to its full potential (ie, no smobs).

gschem has some configurability (key bindings, colors).... perhaps it
could be extended to behave like xfig.  in that case, adding smobs to
gschem would be most beneficial.  the other merge-oriented approach, of
course, would be to emulate gschem in xfig.

if merging is not deemed valuable, going ahead w/ smobification of xfig
will at least give gEDA programmers something to look at and learn from,
so there's still wide value in doing so.  however, my gut feeling is
that, in the long term, gschem (being part of gEDA) has more viability
than xfig.  (this is not meant as a slur on xfig, you understand.)

thi