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 --- "R. Timothy Edwards" <tim AT stravinsky DOT jhuapl.edu>
a écrit : > Dear Calin,
> 
> >> The magic-wrapper doesn't change the
> >> magic executable at all.    Magic does all the
> same
> >> things in the same way at the same speed.
> 
> > I was scared that you would do as most linux
> > programers do these days: they take an old program
> > with "a not so friendly GUI" and convert it to a
> > "friendly" GUI which brakes everything. Example
> > ng-spice from GEDA which suppossed to improve
> berkeley
> > spice but couldn't even display the help in the
> help
> > window. 
> 
> I was just re-reading your response today, and since
> I have been
> working more closely with the guys at MultiGiG (John
> Wood et al.),
> I realize that the irony of your response is that
> MultiGiG has
> done a lot of the recent code changes to ng-spice! 
> I'm not sure,
> though, if that was what broke ng-spice, or if they
> fixed that,
> or if it had nothing to do with the parts MultiGiG
> worked on.

Hi
The version of ng-spice i checked was quite old
(ng-spice rework 10 or 11) but i'm ready to try a new
one because the old berkeley spice compile well
only with older gcc releases (gcc 2.91.66 - egcs
1.1.2)


> 
> Actually, I have agreed to to coding work for
> MultiGiG, mostly
> to get them on the right track.  I am trying to get
> them to
> concentrate on getting the tools working under a
> scripting
> language environment, and consider the GUI to be
> both secondary
> AND optional.  To drop Tcl/Python/Perl on top of
> magic is no
> more of a load on resources than is embedding the
> interpreter,
> as Rajit did with Scheme.  From what I have so far,
> magic
> seems to run a lot better under Tcl than it did with
> Scheme
> embedded in it.
> 

I tried the multigig GUI wrapper which was presented
in
 this mailing list but it didn't work (it was in 
early development stage and i underestand). It seems
that tcl is a nice language in terms of resource usage
even on a slow machine. I bought a new PC and I'll
install magic as soon as possible.

Thanks 


> 						---Tim


Calin
 

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