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

[Steve Meier <smeier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stuart Brorson wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Steve Meier wrote:
>
>   
>> Just to expand the vocabulary... two words..
>>
>> plugins
>>
>> translators
>>
>> I am convinced that the complexity of the data is better suited for db's
>> then flat files.
>>
>> Stuart is "deadly" upposed to requiring a db engine inorder to run geda.
>>     
>
> *chuckle*
>
> It is certainly true that if a DB is required to run gEDA,

Thats an opinion or a belief not a proven fact. My own opinion is that
geda will remian very limited without better ways of handeling complex
data. How do questions like this get resolved? Well that is the beauty
of open source and the market place where idea can compete.


>  it will be
> the death of the project since nobody except ueber-hackers will be
> able to figure out how to design even a simple board.  That would be
> bad for everybody working with gEDA.  (But would be good for Kicad, I
> suppose....)
>
>   
>> Plugins provides a solution to db or not to db.
>>     
>
> I have been made to understand that any changes made to base gEDA/gaf
> functionality will be made through hooks allowing use of optional
> modules -- a.k.a. plugins.  Therefore, the base functionality of
> gEDA/gaf will remain stripped down and bare, while those who want to
> use flat files, databases, or whatever else will be free to hook them
> in.  I think this makes plenty of sense.
>
> There were several different, conflicting visions of what kind of
> component browser would be used with gEDA/gaf.   The nice thing about
> hooks into libgeda/gschem/whatever is that users are free to write
> their *own* module for component browsing -- one which suits their
> individual vision of what a component browser should look like.
> Again, I think this makes the most sense.
>
> The question then becomes:  What do the hooks look like?  DBUS?  Some
> swig thing?
>
>   
A very reasonable question.

> Anyway, I will continue to mostly lurk on this thread, but I was
> amused that you remembered how adament I was about not requiring a
> database.  I'm glad I got my point across!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stuart
>
>
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