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Subject: Re: [geda-user] SQL PCB file format
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:01 AM, John Griessen <john AT ecosensory DOT com> wrote:
> On 08/25/2015 07:50 PM, Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>
>> Guys if we fixed the HID no one should ever need to look at the file
>> content in a text editor.
>
>
> That IS how the users of PADS operate.  The netlist is the thing that is
> text checked, text processed,
> if any.
>
> But how bad is the human readable version of sqlite?
>
> Searching for this, I find some talking encryption think it is OK as is
> even:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/986403/encrypted-file-or-db-in-python
> SQLite databases are pretty human-readable, and there isn't any built-in
> encryption.
>
> but there are almost no hits.  Very few people think sqlite is "readable"
>
> The data files could be densified some from the SQLite file.  Or just
> convert back and forth
> from the existing file structure.

It might not be encrypted but the fields for what data is where are
not human readable so it might as well be.

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