Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-07 Thread John Griessen
Mike Crowe wrote: I have used some of the comercial schematic packages that allow integration of attribute information into a database. It provides significant improvements for tasks such as; generating purchasing requests, inventory management, and bill of materials management, and

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-07 Thread Werner Hoch
Hi John, On Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009, John Doty wrote: On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Yes! If you keep your project's symbols together in a project symbol directory, this is very easy. Each symbol file encodes a relation, including graphics, and is conveniently editable

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-07 Thread Peter TB Brett
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 18:44:04 Werner Hoch wrote: Hi John, On Dienstag, 6. Januar 2009, John Doty wrote: On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: Yes! If you keep your project's symbols together in a project symbol directory, this is very easy. Each symbol file encodes a

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-07 Thread Werner Hoch
On Dienstag, 30. Dezember 2008, Peter TB Brett wrote: On Wednesday 07 January 2009 18:44:04 Werner Hoch wrote: I've added a per project symbol library to the todo list of gEDA 1.8: http://geda.seul.org/wiki/geda:todos#stable1 I can probably put together a Guile script which will implement

gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Mike Crowe wrote: I don't know if putting gschem netlist data or the graphics data into a database helps with much, as relationalism there doesn't seem to be of much benefit. Relationalism may not be of much benefit, but easy, centralized, network-based

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Bdale Garbee
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 07:26 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: On Jan 5, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Mike Crowe wrote: I don't know if putting gschem netlist data or the graphics data into a database helps with much, as relationalism there doesn't seem to be of much benefit. Relationalism may not

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:26:08 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: But database servers, MySQL servers in particular, are pretty ubiquitous, and the API is easy. No doubt, a data base can be fine and powerful. However, many tasks have to be implemented by the application. From the top of my head:

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread John Doty
On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: No doubt, a data base can be fine and powerful. However, many tasks have to be implemented by the application. From the top of my head: searching, editing, versioning, back-up, character encoding, permissions, import/export,

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: But database servers, MySQL servers in particular, are pretty ubiquitous, and the API is easy. No doubt, a data base can be fine and powerful. However, many tasks have to be implemented by the application. From the top of my head:

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Mike Crowe
On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 20:36 +, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:26:08 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote: But database servers, MySQL servers in particular, are pretty ubiquitous, and the API is easy. No doubt, a data base can be fine and powerful. However, many tasks have to

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread John Doty
On Jan 6, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Mike Crowe wrote: I have used some of the comercial schematic packages that allow integration of attribute information into a database. It provides significant improvements for tasks such as; generating purchasing requests, inventory management, and bill of

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 6, 2009, at 6:26 PM, John Doty wrote: I have used some of the comercial schematic packages that allow integration of attribute information into a database. It provides significant improvements for tasks such as; generating purchasing requests, inventory management, and bill of

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread John Doty
On Jan 6, 2009, at 4:59 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: On Jan 6, 2009, at 6:26 PM, John Doty wrote: I have used some of the comercial schematic packages that allow integration of attribute information into a database. It provides significant improvements for tasks such as; generating purchasing

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread John Doty
On Jan 6, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:22 PM, John Doty wrote: I have used some of the comercial schematic packages that allow integration of attribute information into a database. It provides significant improvements for tasks such as; generating purchasing

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:39 PM, John Doty wrote: I'm not clear on what your point is. In my flows, the source files from which the entire design can be regenerated go into CVS. Releases are tagged just as in a software flow, so I can readily look up the history of the versions that made it to

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread John Doty
On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: On Jan 6, 2009, at 9:39 PM, John Doty wrote: I'm not clear on what your point is. In my flows, the source files from which the entire design can be regenerated go into CVS. Releases are tagged just as in a software flow, so I can readily

Re: gEDA-user: symbol databases, was Re: Wish list, sort of

2009-01-06 Thread Dave McGuire
On Jan 6, 2009, at 10:33 PM, John Doty wrote: A perfectly good approach, of course. I'm in a situation, though, in which the network is *never* unavailable, for other reasons, and I am a big fan of centralized storage and decentralized processing. That is the standpoint from which I