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

[Steven Michalske <smichalske@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   What about SQLite?  I've *glanced* at its home page a couple times in
>   the past (really no more than that),
>   and in really less than 10 minute just now I was able to download it,
>   build it, create a database in a file,
>   query it, and dump its generative code (probably a good format for
>   grep-happy people like you :).
>   What I've been thinking of lately is a sort of heavy symbol wiki that
>   people could add to as they create their
>   own project parts like you do.  You could build parts in chroots with a
>   few things (Pcb_9.pm tragesym etc.) available.  I'm not sure how useful
>   a DB would be in an application like this but I wouldn't rule it out
>   just based
>   on bad experiences with servers databases.
>   Britton

SQLite for the win, it is easy, simple and relitivly fast.

built into Python.
built into Mac OSX

When needed you can switch your database code over to a heaver database.


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