| ID: | 568 |
| From: | ge...@igor2.repo.hu |
| Date: | Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:53:05 +0100 (CET) |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] edakrill: please contribute |
| in-reply-to: | 567 from John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com> |
| replies: | 569 from John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com> |
On Wed, 22 Mar 2017, John Griessen wrote: > On 03/22/2017 11:11 AM, gedau@igor2.repo.hu wrote: >> It's a "gedasymbols.org clone", with a few very important differences: >> >> - it's not geda-centric; I automtically convert data to all formats I can, >> e.g. footprints are available in lihata, tedax, geda >> .fp, kicad; I plan to do the same later with symbols too >> >> - although the backing data store is svn, which makes it somewhat similar to >> gedasymbols, I am also providing web upload - so >> casual users uploading small amount of data won't need to use svn >> >> - edakrill uses rich metadata, which makes searches much better > > Sounds fabulous -- especially the multiple converted formats all available at > a first glance. > > Can metadata include whether a footprint has been updated, when updated, or > whether it has been used in hardware > successfully? That would be a boon. It can include anything you or any user wants: the tagging system is a free form key=value system, much like openstreetmap's. Users are encouraged to invent tag names and tagging conventions. New tag names automatically show up in the parametric search, you don't even need to register tags, just start using them. (There are a very few tags the system depends on, like "type" that tells if the resource is a footprint, font or symbol. But I keep this sort of magic low volume as much as possible) The parametric search on the web looks like digikey's, you get each tag and all possible values per tag then you can multi-select which ag values you are looking for.
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