On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <d...@softplc.com> wrote: > On 08/06/2013 06:40 PM, Chris Morgan wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Sites like http://www.kicadlib.org/ are great for sharing libraries >> but I was thinking that having integrated online library sharing could >> better distribute the work while making it easier to share and use >> parts. A user could add add trusted sources to their remote libraries, >> contribute new parts, vote on parts etc. >> >> Thoughts? It would probably take a bit of effort to spec out and >> implement things, I was thinking of an indiegogo or kickstarter >> approach to fund the work. >> >> Chris > > > This has been discussed numerous times, both for eeschema and for pcbnew. > > In fact I mentioned it for pcbnew about 4 days ago again. > > The eeschema conversation is longer, and archives have it already. >
I've done a couple of searches like "kicad online library" and "kicad network library" that didn't turn up anything. Were different terms used in the discussion? > I don't see why a PCBNEW plugin could not use http protocol to implement the > PLUGIN > interface. The PLUGIN interface seems adequate, although we'll see soon how > well it fits > the needs of pcbnew after the fp lib table work is done. There is no search > mechanism in > the API, but pcbnew can search footprints after retrieving them using the > API. That may > be adequate, performance wise. The PLUGIN API, which is an interface, does > not prevent > caching being used in the implementation. > Would eeschema require changes to implement a plugin interface as well? I'll have to look at the pcbnew plugin api to see. > Then there is a server. For read only access, I think a stock http server > could probably > work. Especially if the footprints were stored in the pretty format so they > were all in > separate files. > I would think that support for things like pushing new versions of symbols and footprints, tracking old versions, meta-data such as who created the models, support for 3D models, voting, comments etc would be some of the bigger wins with a networked approach. The idea would be to build a system that can be in some way self-maintained by the users without requiring someone to manually track all of those details. > wxWidgets has an http client, and although its reputation is not shiny, it > might be > adequate for something so simple as retrieving short files, and grabbing > directory listings. > > I said before I could write it 3 weeks. > > Dick > It might be relatively quick to implement. I'm starting to put together a description of the concept, components and features so we have something to discuss around. I'll pull in the information from the previous discussions if I can find them. Chris _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
