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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 03:56:48PM +0200, Povilas Kanapickas wrote:
> P.S. Just out of interest, could someone give a two sentence overview
> over why custom, non XML/JSON/etc. format has been chosen for various
> serializers in KiCad? I've tried to search in the email archives but the
> decision and arguments for it seem to be burried sufficiently deep
> enough :-)

Actually is not custom is simply a sexp... predating XML by about...
more or less 30 years :D

AFAIK it was chosen because a) they liked it and b) it's pretty the same
than the one used by SPECCTRA so there was already stuff done for it.

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