Hi, On Fri, 2010-05-07 at 14:45 +0000, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > On Thu, 06 May 2010 17:30:01 -0400, Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote: > > > I have the feeling that this could have good reception from companies > > like digikey, mouser, arrow... > > I have a feeling, that they won't bother. They may not see a reason to > provide a special service.
I think there's not much to do to implement the service. In fact the service is already there, what's lacking is a proper interface to let 3rd party software get the search results without accesing the website through a browser. It could even be there already in the case of digikey, but I'm not that familiar with these search-bar plugins, and haven't had the time to check the code(?) for info to implement the searches. > We don't represent a relevant volume of sales. It isn't about us, it is about the EDA-users community. Independently of being gEDA-users the ones requesting the thing, the benefit is for the whole EDA-users, since all other EDA developers can implement features based on the new source of information. That said, I have my doubts about the nature of the database needed(in general terms). The device/manufacturer/distributor/package/price/whatever info is already on the supplier's databases, and it's changing continuously. So for me, the "gEDA" database should try to have the minimum hard-saved data as possible, and take advantage of the info provided(which is already maintained by 3rd parties). Best Regards, Felipe. -- Felipe De la Puente Christen Mobile Phone : +56 9 93199807 MSN/GTalk : fdelapue...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user