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

["Steven Michalske" <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, i didn't mean to come off as saying that one is required or
should be a core dependency,  but SQLite is public domain, include the
source in your app distribute it how you will,  near zero
administration, database system.  that happens to use SQL  so it is a
good leap board for larger SQL databases

it has no dependency hell because you embed it into your code and
include it.  no requirement to install it separately.

I see that Stuart doesn't want to make gEDA any harder and i agree  i
administer it for a group of about 8 employees at a large company, i
am trying to get more users using it.

I have the part library contained in a SVN repository,  i would love
to have that repository have a database for that project.  have SQLite
open a project file/database and viola.

This is the kind of comment that is scary.

"It is certainly true that if a DB is required to run gEDA, 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. "

not all users care about databases,  and some will never look at them
in there life,  but having one at the core of a program won't kill it
off.  Aperture, a photo
management system uses a database in the back end and as the whole
core of the application.  and photographers are not uber hackers, and
they get along just great.  i am more convinced that to setup gEDA you
have to be a bit of a uber hacker,  have you recently tried to have 8
people using the same symbol repository?  it is a bit of a pain,
having one database would make it a bit easier i think for myself.

as for embeded symbols, you make a sqlite database file and include it
with your schematics or have a option to save all symbols to the flat
file representation.

this would be in a plugin form, of course.

Steve (hardkrash)

Switching to my handle as there are many steves on this list and only
one hardkrash
On Dec 26, 2007 10:40 AM, DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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