Re: gEDA-user: Fwd: Parts DB API: the story so far

[John Griessen <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> I am completely, utterly, and deadly opposed to a database, except as
> an optional plug-in -- i.e. a separate facility which the remainder of
> gEDA can run without.  If gEDA requires a database for use, then we
> lose 99% of all gEDA users.  A database is a PITA to install, build,
> maintain, administer, upgrade, and use.  It is also a dependency which
> will make gEDA uninstallable by almost everybody.

You have a point there...keeping it optional is probably how it will evolve then...
Everything I've said at first is wrong.

DJ's simplified query language for electronic parts could run on a remote server that is installed
by someone who can stand adminning it.  But then, it would need to be editable like a wiki
so new info could be added, or maybe that's what some of the suggestions about merging data are about.

The model could be, those who can, create db servers of parts and update them as they see fit,
for their interests, with no trashing caused by wiki editor hackers.  The simplified query language
plus a list of server URLs let's a merge of data happen across some computer dirs on one machine,
or across company machines, or across the Atlantic Ocean, etc.

John Griessen

-- 
Ecosensory   Austin TX


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