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[Mathias Grimmberger <mgri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kaspar Emanuel <kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Was this applied, will it be in stable? I am interested mainly because of my
> library that works with .kicad_mod files.

If this were planned to go in I would suggest to take the patch for
SHAPE_CONVEX first. Without it roundrect pads will behave rather oddly
when using the OpenGL/Cairo canvas.

The SHAPE_CONVEX patch in itself is somewhat low risk IMHO, since it
only changes things for users of trapezoidal or oddly rotated pads, and
only with OpenGL/Cairo.

The roundrect patch then would need some extensions to make use of
SHAPE_CONVEX. This patch is higher risk because it touches external data
format, exported/plotted data, all canvas types and so on.


MGri