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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/08/2014 02:12 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 07:31:47PM +0100, John Beard wrote:
>> it will show you what it can. You'd be annoyed if it didn't, it would be
>> like Flash needing the latest version to watch your video, without the
>> excuse that is necessary to implement the latest and greatest DRM fad.
> 
> Uhm... doesn't actually flash or java work this way? I uninstalled them
> after being tired of the weekly updates....
> 
>> It's not because *I* don't want to upgrade, *I'm* to the one who's
>> hypothetically extended some aspect of the footprint format for my own
>> ends. It's because J. Random McTrunkBuild (or even his cousin,
>> McDistroVersion) shouldn't need to recompile with a patch from me to
>> read a footprint of mine which has my field "(user_sku 45443)" or
>> "(jedec_ref "SOT45")" in it, when he doesn't need or care about that
>> field.
> 
> Yay my problem too. I added support for courtyard and assembly layers because I needed them but the whole idea was rejected (in the meantime on the user list they keep asking how to do it...).
> 
> Obviously now they can't be read by a stock pcbnew if I use them... the
> sexp quoting at least was backward compatible.
> 
> I'm still convinced that a simple generic something like (attribute
> "user_sku" "45443"), like that supported by gencad would be useful for
> your needs. eeschema attributes works like that, too.
> 


You have an Unbelievable ability to confuse an issue.  The discussion was about grammar,
and you introduce syntax into the conversation.

You are impossible to work with, because the range of any conversation or its direction
cannot be followed.

Dick