A common parts library supported by multiple EDAs would be nice indeed. But its pretty hard to pull of, since the library organization and styles are quite diff

A common parts library supported by multiple EDAs would be nice indeed. But its pretty hard to pull of, since the library organization and styles are quite different between these. I mean: Importing / exporting the geometry data of footprints and symbols shouldn't be too hard. But one also needs to find a common set of categories, tags, relations between the parts, etc. Otherwise one will end up with a huge library which is impossible to navigate. Also I would be afraid to just create yet another format which will lead to even more fragmentation.