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

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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 hardware. And
>>> generally it is a software flow, too, since software is often  
>>> part of
>>> the project. If the network isn't available, I can't access the
>>> archive, but I can still access whatever the "current" design on my
>>> laptop is, which is generally good enough except at the time of a
>>> release.
>>
>>    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 speak.
>
> I'm still not clear what you're asserting here. The project symbol
> directory approach works fine in a "centralized storage and
> decentralized processing" environment. Been there, done that, with
> Viewlogic instead of gEDA, but the issues are the same.

   Centralized on the *network*, not on a single system.  I edit  
schematics on many different systems, depending on where I'm working.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL



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