gEDA-dev: Further thoughts on Parts Manager

[John Griessen]

Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 10:18 -0500, John Griessen wrote:
>> You could put an attribute in your schematic
>> such that symbols must be from the central database
[jg]Nevermind me thinking versioning meant part symbols from database on a date...


  I'm conceptually looking at
> front end stuff similar to Tomaz Solc's "GTK interface to
> gedasymbols.org", but hopefully with much more "database" knowledge
> relating to "parts". 


Keeping all the files and embedded symbols in sync with the database versions
might cost more time than it's worth,
but to have a database for relating to all the non symbol data about parts
we use is a great thing.

Finding part info gets into how people run businesses, so I think it is best
to let them use databases they already use -- like SQL ones.  How about TinyERP for a database?
Bob Paddock is trying it out, I'm going to give it a whirl.  To be able to put engineering data into the same system you put 
receipts and invoices and marketing work in would be great.

 From it's project page -- "Tiny ERP is a free ERP and CRM solution. The main technical features are: a GTK2 client, a distributed 
server, flexible workflows, an object database (on top of PostgreSQL), dynamic GUIs, customizable reports, SOAP and XML-RPC 
interfaces, ..."

John Griessen