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I'm not absolutely clear what you have in mind here, but far more
useful than an interface to a local sql would be some graceful way to
interface to these:

https://www.snapeda.com
http://madparts.org/

So far as I'm aware these are the closest things to an effort to
develop open parts libraries and creation.

Britton

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:11 AM,  <gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as part of the [mods] patches, I am moving a lot of core code to plugins.
> I'm currently finishing moving the footprint list/search/load code.
>
> This makes it feasible to write footprint plugins that don't take footprints
> from the file system, but from sql, or other databases, or the web, or
> wherever.
>
> Plugins can be substituted, different implementations don't interfere at
> all, so there's no "either filesystem or sql" decision forced onto the
> user. As a core plugin, it doesn't bit-rot either.
>
> This feature had been discussed many times in great lengths on the list. Now
> we have the chance to make it real, to convert endless/fruiteless discussion
> into actual code.
>
> Does anyone feel like developing a database (e.g. sql, sqlite, bdb)
> footprint lib plugin?
>
> To estimate complexity:
>
>  - the file system (ex-newlib) backend, including pcb-rnd extras (parametric
> footprints) is about 500 lines of code; I expect it to stay under 800 lines.
> I expect a simple db backend to be about the same in length.
>
>  - the API currently has 3 entry points; it will grow slightly, but I expect
> there would be no more than 5..8 calls to be implemented.
>
>  - the API is very young and no much code depends on it, I am willing to
> make reasonable changes to it to suit a new plugin.
>
> I'd say the setup cost, API/glue part shouldn't be more than two hours;
> depending how complicated the database part is chosen to be, the whole thing
> should take something between 1..3 days.
>
> Regards,
>
> Igor2

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