I too am curious about this, although I haven't made the time yet to go read the heavy vs. light debate in all it's glory. Currently, I work in a manufacturing environment where every single item we sell is made up of a BOM of items that we purchase and assemble in some form or another. Thus, when we place a resistor on the board, it has an internal part number so that purchasing can know when it is time to go out and buy more of those resistors. We have a database backend that interfaces with Orcad that makes this more or less (depending on one's point of view and time remaining to get the darn board out the door) easy to select from our parts database.
I have wondered how well/if/ that model would integrate with the gEDA tools. BTW, I have also wondered how well/if it is possible/ to share design data between the gEDA tools and Orcad. The little I've looked, I haven't seen a converter, and I haven't looked for documentation describing the Orcad file format in order to write my own, but I figured I would ask. --wpd _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user