On Jan 6, 2009, at 5:26 PM, Dave McGuire wrote: > On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:22 PM, John Doty wrote: >>>>> I have used some of the comercial schematic packages that allow >>>>> integration of attribute information into a database. It provides >>>>> significant improvements for tasks such as; generating purchasing >>>>> requests, inventory management, and bill of materials management, >>>>> and >>>>> component obsolescence. When viewing the attributes on the >>>>> schematic, >>>>> one is looking at the latest component information. >>>> >>>> That's part of what using a project symbol directory, instead of >>>> library symbol instances, achieves. The only difference between >>>> this >>>> and some other kind of database is the form of the capsule around >>>> the >>>> information. A symbol file is a perfectly reasonable capsule. >>> >>> Well, and network availability. (assuming no NFS) >> >> I'm not clear on what your point is. In my flows, the "source" files >> from which the entire design can be regenerated go into CVS. >> "Releases" are "tagged" just as in a software flow, so I can readily >> look up the history of the versions that made it to hardware. And >> generally it is a software flow, too, since software is often part of >> the project. If the network isn't available, I can't access the >> archive, but I can still access whatever the "current" design on my >> laptop is, which is generally good enough except at the time of a >> release. > > A perfectly good approach, of course. I'm in a situation, though, > in which the network is *never* unavailable, for other reasons, and I > am a big fan of centralized storage and decentralized processing. > That is the standpoint from which I speak.
I'm still not clear what you're asserting here. The project symbol directory approach works fine in a "centralized storage and decentralized processing" environment. Been there, done that, with Viewlogic instead of gEDA, but the issues are the same. > > -Dave > > -- > Dave McGuire > Port Charlotte, FL > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > John Doty Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd. http://www.noqsi.com/ [email protected] _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
