[dominicgs]

I haven't had problems scripting the Altera tools. We use make on Linux to build things for the Daisho project[1]. Or were you thinking of something more advanced than that?

Having said that, I'm 100% in favour of open tools. I think the current tools are one of the biggest barriers to the use of FPGAs. I also think that they cause a lock-in effect for developers, which hurts FPGA adoption as a whole.

[1] https://github.com/mossmann/daisho/blob/master/sw/fpga/targe...