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[Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 11/03/2014 14:25, Dick Hollenbeck a écrit :
>
> Here at my company, we simply use the "Kicad" plugin on a NFS server.  The pretty dirs are
> all on a simple Ubuntu file server running nfs.  That plugin works pretty well in a
> multi-user environment, benefiting from the fact that each footprint is in a separate file
> thus reducing the possibility of multiple users fighting each other on edits.  There may
> be some small improvements possible WRT to multi-user in the Kicad plugin, but it already
> works well.
>
> Can you explain why the Kicad plugin does not meet your needs?  Is the central server not
> in-house?
>
> I want to understand what problems you think your solution addresses that the stock
> plugins do not.
>

In fact our users are not alway on same site as the server. Some time it
can become difficult to have nfs connection.
Also I'm not sure to use a local server, perhaps we will use a server
somewhere on a datacenter.
An other point is about editing, I want to manage right and rules for
editing/adding/delete (this could be done by a NFS server, it's ok).
I think that I can do somethink like this with a webdav server but it
will always need to be dependent to the
computed configuration (webdav/nfs mounting) and a network connection.
And last point, I want also that the plugin handle an offline mode with
a local cache.
Currently we work with a subversion repository for footprints. So we
have "like a local cache" but sometime users forgot to update/commit/add...
I want to make this completly transparent with this plugin...
At the beginning, I had take a look at the github plugin. This plugin is
realy good but it does not allow (as I understand) to work
with an other server than github.

Anyway, new pretty format will help me for creating this.