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Re: gEDA-user: file formats again (was: next PCB release - 1.99za vs 4.0)



At 04:46 PM 9/11/2010, you wrote:
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 09:28:16PM +0200, kai-martin knaak wrote:
> Peter Clifton wrote:
>
> > Yes, indeed.. magic silk (and other) layers should probably go
> > and die.
>
> Please do. My local list of warts and rooms for improvement contains
> many complaints about things that can't be done with silk. Worst of
> all: You can't selectively print top-silk and bottom-silk like the
> regular layers.
>

Doing this will almost certainly require changes to the file format,
which I am loath to do unless we switch entirely to a new, more flexible
file format.

Are there any concrete plans in that direction?


Yeah, I think the consensus is to switch to a light weight XML format... ;^)

Rick



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