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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 06:07:18PM +0200, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> How about modifying the PCB parser to produce warnings for designs that
> contain layers unsupported by this particular version (same for new object
> types, such as arcs on copper layers, diff pairs, polygons in footprints,
> etc.)?

Also if you don't include the new layers they wouldn't appear anyway in
the file, so compatibility is kept.

Junking entities on load when on unsupported layers *could* be done, but
is that desiderable? what's the 'official' opinion about the 'just do
make and upgrade' argument popped up a while ago (for similar reasons)?

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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