kicad-developers team mailing list archive

[jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 18/01/2016 19:59, jp charras a écrit :
> Le 18/01/2016 19:28, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
> 
> << snipped >>
> 
>>> If you want to enhance the .pro file, add also in this file the path of
>>> the saved gerber and drill files (Eeschema already save the path of plot
>>> files).
>>
>> Makes sense to save these at the project level.
>>
>>>
>>> It could be worth to know this path when running Gerbview from Kicad.
>>> The path and all other plot prms is already saved in the .kicad_pcb
>>> file, but this is not a very good idea (at least for some of them).
>>> The right place is the .pro file, not the board file, because these
>>> parameters can be used outside Pcbnew.
>>
>> It's probably too late to move these settings from the board file.  I
>> don't want to break the board file format to change this.  Moving
>> forward, I would prefer that project related settings be saved in the
>> .pro file rather than the board and/or schematic file.  I've never been
>> fond of the fact that my board file changes when I change the plot
>> settings or the change layer visibility because I use a VCS for version
>> control.
> 
> I am not sure it is too late.
> Moving some of these settings breaks anything.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^breaks nothing.
(sorry)
> 
> 1- They can be saved both in board file and .pro file
> or:
> 2 - They can be just missing in board file and saved only in .pro file
> (but obviously, the code to read (skip?) these parameters in board files
> should not be removed)
> 
> New .pro files can be read by old versions (new parameters are just
> ignored, they use the old .ini file format)
> 
> Some parameters must be saved in board file because they are part of the
> design (vias are tented or not tented, or the plot origin).
> 
> Most of them should be moved to the .pro (options like "use Protel
> extension", "list of layers to plot", or the latest file format : PDF,
> Gerber ... used for instance)
> 
> Removing them from the board files does not break anything.
> Just if an user loads the board file with an old Pcbnew version, he will
> reselect these options.
> And most of time they need to be reselected, to plot a doc in PS or PDF
> format and then create fab Gerber/Drill files.
> 
> 


-- 
Jean-Pierre CHARRAS