On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:56:41AM -0800, Steve Meier wrote: > I also agree that flat files really arn't a good way to capture a lot of > relevent information. I shudder thinking about a library of 10 million > resistors one for each manufacturor each package, each value etc.
This reminds a little of something I stole for the sig-quote database (which is just a bunch of flat files, as it happens, but nowhere near a million of them <grin>): "This is like making a car shorter by cutting off a few inches from each end with a Sawzall. Of course there's little benefit, because that's a dumb way to do it." There would be ten million resistor symbols only if you ignore the natural regularities of that universe of components. This does require a little more logic, to apply the reduced volume of tabular data appropriately. And, yeah, those things are a little ad-hoc. And some things will be so much their own weird thing that they do need a totally unique description per part. <blink>So it goes.</blink> -- And in the end, reality always tends to hit theory hard in the face when you least expect it. - Linus _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
