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> To make you application you could use Lazarus. That's a "write once,
> compile everywere" RAD environment. It's more or less a clone of Delphi,
> but very cross-platform. It has native drivers to access Firebird (and
> other DB's) so ODBC is not needed, since ODBC is mostly Windows.
> Just my 2 cents.

No sure what this discussion has to do with Multi-Part Components!?
(see previous discussion wrt BOM management)

How about accessing an existing database?
I would recommend checking out:
where either a manual or API search of the site is provided. Part
searches provide description, pdf spec, multi-distributor, cost, inventory,etc
-Frank

Thanks, that's certainly worth knowing should I suddenly find myself
with the time to write the front end app :). Is the Lazarus driver a
proper client-server interface, that would allow the front end to talk
to a Firebird server on a remote machine? Firebird can be run
"embedded" using a driver, but that would limit kicad to being used by
only one engineer at a location, acting as a barrier to it being used
professionally.

I did look into ODBC and although originally a Microsoft technology it
is supported by Linux. The Firebird ODBC driver for Linux is here:



I've not checked to see if there are any snags, but the Firebird
community is very active and I'm sure they would not tolerate something
buggy.

Regards,

Robert.

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