Chris & Andrew, You're both welcome to publish your findings regarding your design decisions. I believe it'd be worthwile to peer-review and discuss different approaches.
I consider CircuitHub the best solution so far. I think Dropbox integration is its best feature but its user interface never seemed intuitive to me and I'm not in peace with its basic principle - I really think that allowing every user to upload their own libraries is a recipe for disaster. Having 10 different kinds of 74HC595s, half of which is broken is not good for anyone. A powerful and user-friendly parametric library and footrprint generator would be so much useful to have. http://www.compuphase.com/electronics/kicadlibrarian_en.htm is by far the best implementation of this concept. http://kicad.rohrbacher.net/quicklib.php also nails the idea even though I think its user interface is terrible. For one-off parts maybe it'd useful to have something like CircuitHub but only if there'd be a set of parts approved by librarians (administrators of the site). Without librarians this approach seems to lead to chaos. I'd be interested in developing a web-based library and footprint generator eventually and maybe being a librarian by time. So far I've created http://mondalaci.github.io/dxf-to-svg-to-kicad-pcb-converter/ which solves a different problem but I believe it demonstrates the power of a very intuitive web user interface that just works. This could be done for footprints, too. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Chris Morgan <chmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Andrew. > > Can I email you what I have when it's ready for first review? Then maybe we > can iterate and discuss as you mentioned? I'd really like to get your > feedback before putting anything out for wide distribution. > > Chris > > > > On Aug 7, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Andrew Seddon <and...@circuithub.com> wrote: > > I'd just like to extend an offer I made to Chris. > > I've been working on a library creation/management solution full time for a > couple of years now so have a pretty good grasp of the problem. If anybody > is interested in pursing this I would be happy to take you through the > design decisions/trade-offs we made, which might act as a good starting > point, and perhaps highlight some of the things that could be done > differently (we tried a lot of different stuff). Happy to > Skype/Hangout/Phone etc. > > Cheers > > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Chris Morgan <chmor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It's good that you mentioned kicadcloud.com, I hadn't spotted that >> yet. I did receive email from Andrew @ circuithub and I asked some >> questions about API and other details. There may be potential to >> collaborate with them on the API. >> >> I'm putting together a write up of the problem, the possible >> online/cloud (although I really think that term is over used) solution >> and some implementation ideas. I'll try to follow up here in a few >> days once I have something that is enough to be beyond just some guy >> sending email to the kicad developers list. My initial email was to >> see if anyone else might be on board with the idea and to start to >> gather some details before doing all of that extra work. >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:49 PM, László Monda <l...@monda.hu> wrote: >> > Chris, >> > >> > Not sure whether you've heard of https://circuithub.com/ or >> > http://www.kicadcloud.com/ but they're certainly related even though >> > none of them seem terribly useful to me at the moment. Maybe some of >> > these sites expose some webservice APIs - Could be a good way to >> > start. >> > >> > On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Chris Morgan <chmor...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > László Monda <http://monda.hu> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > > -- > -- > Andrew Seddon > Co-founder CircuitHub > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- László Monda <http://monda.hu> _______________________________________________ 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
