Re: gEDA-user: pcb grid improvements... status of patch?

[Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:06:02 -0700
Andrew Poelstra <asp11@xxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:48:38AM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
> > 
> > To follow up on this, the bug with the new patch is at
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/pcb/+bug/724154
> > also see the geda-user mailing list thread titled âPlease test new
> > grids for GTK PCBâ started 24 Feb 2011:
> > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.cad.geda.user/35867/
> >
> 
> I have read through that bug report, though I haven't had
> a change to apply and play with the attached patch. The
> holdup right now is the file format change. We can't have
> that.

Why not add the Attribute() item as DJ suggested, but put it at the top somewhere, inside a comment?  Versions of PCB that don't understand it would simply ignore it.

Move it out of "commented out" status when that major file format change that was talked about previously takes place.

Same could hold true for any other optional/non-critical changes to the file format.

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Vanessa Ezekowitz <vanessaezekowitz@xxxxxxxxx>


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