On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:32:22 -0700 asom...@gmail.com wrote: > I have to agree with Mark. Maintaining a hierarchical organization > would be a laborious and thankless job for one poor schmuck. But a > tagging scheme puts most of the burden on individual contributors. I > think it could actually work.
I would imagine that each contributor would have to assign one or more categories to each footprint. How much is it to ask that someone click "Pushbutton Switch" or "LED" in a list of categories. Some things might belong to more than one category, and that is where tags make it easier in some ways. If there were a standard set of tags (switch, momentary-switch, toggle-switch, led, smt, through-hole, header, etc.) then a hierarchical browser could be implemented for footprints having appropriate tags. (By mapping certain tags to certain points in the category list/tree.) Tags are more general than categories, but in my experience it is quite difficult to productively browse a database that uses free-form tags. If there were well-thought-out, strictly standardized tags that each contributor applied consistently, then it might work well. Regards, Colin _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
