X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Original-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=b9gagavGUfraCOtMdogiTkJH/wpWz+SKyB3ya+PWKSY=; b=teRKWZJwRnLiT4OjqnIFUtrlEM9vAYBAz9RIejLXlSjJ4e97Ika6get/MxnDX0GxKC KI0cJQCOdXrhGAYzlhrS4ik+nZ6uk9oUUTueqVW+fzMehUjgGGBJ/0lPUdRF9NJY2XJF 3Pujzjt9KRjeeJzayIElb6VLF+fwuKbxAW6qWIVQiHibFMgDDhM+Pt9oGliA+nYfsLpR 9irV5OdSrRnyYnDk/u6LMi3mG+0Cvl8ltb0xlozyfikHNSqflFutTOLV1pvyPi3Xb6Xg kDVjWU/y5TPKmkxDeMbbNSbAA+abM7eZ9mqBoQFiXIwSRnmqLp9tQS146Ghv8CCoR9an QX/Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.246.2 with SMTP id xs2mr27097223lac.83.1440604834083; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:00:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150826153031.4620.qmail@stuge.se> References: <20150826000523 DOT 353 DOT qmail AT stuge DOT se> <55DDD4DB DOT 2060008 AT ecosensory DOT com> <20150826153031 DOT 4620 DOT qmail AT stuge DOT se> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 12:00:34 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [geda-user] SQL PCB file format From: "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: > John Griessen wrote: >> But how bad is the human readable version of sqlite? > > sqlite uses a binary file format. The human interface to sqlite is > SQL, Structured Query Language, which is very human readable and > writable. > > >> Or just convert back and forth from the existing file structure. > > To the extent that it's possible, yes of course that should be supported. If we fixed the way PCB represents it all in memory and made file handling a library you could just use them interchangeably. > //Peter -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/