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[Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:05:24PM -0700, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> Thanks for all your effort Dick; the project's in good shape for future
> development and maintenance thanks largely to your work. I think all the
> devs appreciate how difficult the work actually is; I've been looking at
> the file I/O and various exporters/importers (VRML, IDF, DXF) for ages
> thinking I could reorganize a few things as Wayne suggested about a year
> ago, but I can see it's a big job that'll consume all my free time for
> months on end so I've been putting it off and prioritizing other things.
> You've accomplished a Herculean task and I for one am very grateful for
> it; it's made my task of working with the KiCad source so much easier.

Actually to completely refactorize kicad a nearly complete rewrite would
be necessary... just look over all the 'switch for class type'
statements around. Having done myself some refactoring I quite
understand the effort needed (also IMHO refactoring is quite
uninteresting work to do:P) I agree for the quite good work with the new
file formats, they are very well designed.

Still don't agree with the dynamic loading stuff, but that's a personal
design preference:D

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Lorenzo Marcantonio
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