gEDA-user: Parts DB API

[Peter TB Brett]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007 14:25:25 DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Without a file-format change, the only non-ambiguous way of
> > associating a symbol in the schematic with a symbol in the
> > library/database/whatever is to use the field in the component
> > specification reserved for the component name.
>
> pcb has a similar problem - there's nothing in the file format that
> says "footprint name goes here".  However, I'm thinking we can just
> store that in an attribute.

It would then become ambiguous -- not to mention removing backward 
compatibility -- unless the database system was an optional add-on to another 
symbol-selection system.  I'd like to blend the database system in seemlessly 
if at all possible.

                                    Peter


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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