Good lord. You know you can just store datasheets in a directory on your file system, right? The same way people have stored things on computers for decades. Your computer /already has this functionality/.
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:08:45PM +0200, timofonic timofonic wrote: > On Sep 22, 2015 5:42 PM, "David Cary" <[email protected]> wrote: > > (snip) > > > A tool that caches/stores datasheets locally sounds like a tool that > > would be useful to many people, even people that don't have KiCad > > installed. > > Code reusability is very desired in the FOSS world, incrementally and > evolutionary improving it by all the involved parts. This saves resources > that could be used in other tasks, instead of "reinventing the wheel". > > It's a win-win situation. One of the FOSS goals is about collaboration, not > competition. > > A reusable solution would be desired, of course. > > > Are you using a web browser to navigate to the URL of the datasheet? > > Is there some way to get the web browser to cache that datasheet, and > > wouldn't that be better than to get KiCad to cache the datasheet? > > I unfortunately need to use a web browser for it and these days both sites > and browsers are extremely bloated. > > I need to dig into tons of sites with zillions of annoying ads. Ad blockers > partially solve it, but there's tons of redirections and such. I understand > that's how they get profit in their business, but it's based on > manipulate, torture and annoying to users. > > I did read about paid subscription services that provide high quality > datasheets. I don't have the money and not sure about their real > reliability and if they improve the bad quality ones. > > When I find datasheets, I often get: > - Crappy quality ones. Often scanned with bad OCR instead quality ones with > real text and vectorial images. > - Even if quality is okay they might have annoying watermarks that might > make difficult to read some data. > - Many of them might have scarce information, specially parts largely > manufactured by different manufacturers. In these unfortunate occasions I > might need to look into various ones to get all the needed data. > ----> This crap is very time consuming, boring and depressing. So it might > be good if pain is shared, aka crowdsourcing it. Putting the good one(s) in > KiCad libraries make us happier, save us time and be another potential > killer app. > > > I am reluctant to spend time writing yet another client-side caching > > proxy server from scratch, without understanding: > > How would that work any better than your web browser's cache or the > > existing caching proxy servers listed on the following pages?: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_cache > > http://www.jroller.com/bantunes/entry/open_source_caching_proxy_servers > > > http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Products_and_Tools/Software/Server/ > > I understand it, but anyway... > > How would you identify it's a datasheet and not a regular site with PDF? > Bayesian filtering? There's zillions of sites providing datasheets, even > you might get it in a forum or FTP if you need it for some old part. > > Caching every PDF might fill your HDD or reduce performance. > > > On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Adam Wolf > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > KiCad works just fine without an internet connection, and based on the > > > strong opinions of many of the developers,I can only assume it will > remain > > > so for a long time. > > > > > > Caching proxy servers are available written in many languages, but are > not > > > part of KiCad. > > > > > > There is also a datasheet field, iirc, which can open PDF data sheets > when > > > they are stored on your system. > > Isn't the datasheet field usually an URL? > > It's okay. I just mean a wizard/plugin in form of a Python script to fetch > them and maybe check to get new ones in updated libraries. Just like with > parts libraries. > > Kind regards > > > Adam Wolf > > > Cofounder and Engineer > > > Wayne and Layne > > > > > > On Sep 21, 2015 5:14 PM, "timofonic timofonic" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> > > >> Hello. > > >> > > >> I often get located at places without internet connectivity. This is > > >> annoying. > > >> > > >> What about a Python script that caches/stores datasheets locally? > Would it > > >> be possible? > > > > -- > > David Cary > > +1(918)813-2279 > > http://OpenCircuits.com/ > > http://david.carybros.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
