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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/13/2015 1:47 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2015-01-13 19:39 GMT+01:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> 2015-01-13 19:36 GMT+01:00 Lorenzo Marcantonio <l.marcantonio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 07:20:42PM +0100, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
>>>> The problem is that adding any new token to the file format causes all
>>>> precedent versions of pcbnew to drop an error attempting to load the
>>>> file. I would propose two solutions to overcome this:
>>>
>>> AFAIK the current policy in kicad is simply to force to upgrade :D
>>
>> Which is bad, if we want to distribute stable releases and some OS do
>> not update straight away.

This would really be bad if we charged them $295 to upgrade to the
latest version so they could open the latest file version. ;)  I feel a
bit less guilty about asking users to upgrade when the cost is a little
bit of inconvenience, bandwidth, and time.  Once we get the nightly
builds up to snuff for all platforms, I'll feel even less guilty.

> 
> Which is easy to handle if the file tells the minimum version. Then
> there should just be a check if the kicad that reads is new enough,
> and it can tell you to update. This will remove the fatal failure, and
> we don't have to support older versions in a simple way. IMHO.
> 
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>>> Lorenzo Marcantonio
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