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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/20/2015 10:27 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:19:08AM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> I'm not terribly thrilled about that idea.  One of the things we have
>> changed over the years is to move board specific settings out of the
>> project file and into the board file.  This makes the board file more
>> portable.  If you put board configuration information in the project
> 
> If you look into the project file there is *almost* nothing that
> couldn't be more usefully placed in the board or schematic files...
> 
> Even the page layout should be chosen at the application level, not at
> the project level (it's confusing for the user too: sets the page layout
> in pcbnew and it get's changed in eeschema!).
> 
> The problem at the moment is that some 'root' level information don't
> have a good place in eeschema (since there is no concept of 'root sheet'
> in itself to keep them).
> 

The schematic file issues will be addressed when the new schematic file
format is implemented.  Hopefully that will happen not too long after
the next stable release so I don't want to make any changes to the
current schematic file format between now and then.