Re: gEDA-user: Database on symbols, footprints and other (was "Re: gattrib")

[Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 6, 2010, at 5:30 PM, Felipe De la Puente Christen wrote:
> Sometime ago I was thinking that gEDA-users as a comunity could  
> request
> a part search API-like system to the distributors. For example,Digikey
> already has a fast-search bar for firefox, so they are not far from  
> what
> I mean. But the useful way would be something like the GeoCode APIs
> available on the web. So the app can build a part search request  
> from a
> set of string, and generate the url to get the answers. A solution  
> like
> that would allow every EDA tool to implement multiple itneresting
> functions like purchase information from multiple distributors  
> based on
> BOM info, and so on.
>
> I have the feeling that this could have good reception from companies
> like digikey, mouser, arrow...

  This would be wonderful, wonderful, WONDERFUL.

  It would ROCK.

  In case I'm being unclear, I think this is a great idea.

  And I like it.

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL



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