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

[John Doty <jpd@xxxxxxxxx>]

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
>>>> 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.

Yes, I understand that. At the MIT Center for Space Research we had  
hundreds of systems networked via NFS, and that's where I used this  
approach with Viewlogic.

It doesn't matter whether you centralize with CVS or Subversion,  
centralize with NFS, decentralize with git, or just develop on a  
single machine. The project symbol directory approach works well in  
*all* of these cases.

So I still don't understand what you are attempting to assert.

>
>             -Dave
>
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> Dave McGuire
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John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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