On 6/5/2015 2:57 PM, Henner Zeller wrote: > On 5 June 2015 at 11:54, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 02:31:06PM -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> On 6/5/2015 2:00 PM, Andy Peters wrote: >>>> >>>> *snip * >>> >>> *snip* Trying to provide a fully defined symbol >>> for every transistor would be a huge under taking. Our solution may not >>> be ideal but I'm not sure I want to sift through thousands (tens of >>> thousands?) of transistor part numbers to find what I'm looking for. >> >> You should never have to sift! We need to create a standardized way to >> write description that is easily searched. This is how I manage my >> library - it's quite large, but I know how the descriptions work and I >> can just start typing what I'm looking for. >> >>> I wonder how well Henner's component chooser search code would handle >>> that >>> number of symbols. >> >> Optimize it if it can't! Searching through even *millions* of data >> points is a solved problem in computing. > > As I said, I wouldn't worry about that. In my day-job I am working > with billions of things to search from, so this is peanuts. > > -h >
If only we could create the symbol libraries that fast. Now that would useful! _______________________________________________ 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