Re: gEDA-user: PCB suggestion

[Marvin Dickens <marvindickens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Stuart. In the event XML is needed, it would be easier to write a
stand alone program that converted the output of PCB to XML.  To me, this
makes more sense from a development stand point.

--------------->>>Stuart stated the following<<<------------------

2.  The biggest reason to not use XML is that we already have a
working file format with associated file reading and writing code.
Transitioning to XML is a major, architectural change to PCB.
Everybody talks about changing the program; almost nobody actually
implements the changes.  If I had my druthers for PCB, I'd rather see
developer effort used to upgrade the UI to GTK, rather than wasted on
migrating to an XML file format -- a change which would be invisible
to ordinary users.
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