Re: gEDA-user: PCB format wishlist

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:38 +0200, Kovacs Levente wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:32:10 -0400
> DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Arcs can be simulated with many short lines, so the only primitive we
> > need are lines.  Of course, if "line" is a two-point polygon, then the
> > only primitive we need is polygons.
> 
> So, your pcb file would contain nothing but polygons. This would make it
> unparsable with external scripts and humans.
>  
> > A point is just a line that starts and ends at the same coordinates.
> 
> I don't like this.

I think (hope) DJ was being sarcastic about the suggestion to store only
polygons with no other higher-level information retained.


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