On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
I'm not particularly thrilled by the idea of using a database. There are the
Neither me, I couldn't open it in vi :D it's the 'library' idea which is flawed IMHO. If it isn't for some of these crappy filesystems we have around (you know their names) I would make a file for each part. And maybe libraries would be directories them :P Copy the component? Copy a file :P an index file would be obviously useful for performance reasons (*if* you wouldn't slurp everything in core as it does now, otherwise it would be only a readdir loop) On IMAP servers mailing lists this would be the mbox vs maildir holy war :D The problem with libraries is how you classify stuff... by manufacturer, purpose or what? what about *really* mixed signals devices? an MCP2200 would be in the microchip lib, in the interface lib or some kind of usb lib? OH and, I finally found *one* use case for 'project only' symbols: when you have about 5 different uses for a pin it could be useful to put on the schematic the 'actual' use of these pins; for example a typical PIC18F pin has name: RB5/AN13/CCP3/P3A/T1G/T3CKI, depending on fuses an configuration registries... since I'm hooking only a pushbutton on that, I would like to call him simply 'RB5' but *only* in this project. I survive without the feature without problem, but at least now we have a use case for that. -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp