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Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 10:16:02 +0200
From: Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] New pcbnew features and versioning
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 07:57:36PM -0400, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> I'm very close to finished - I'll take some time to fully test and review the
> patch to ensure it's ready for a commit to stable, though - will submit
> tomorrow.
> 
> I have a question. Currently, when loading a full library as opposed to a
> single footprint, we silently ignore errors and just do not load footprints
> that have syntax issues. This of course means that format versioning won't
> really work for these. The user will never see the hint about their version
> being old.
> 
> Should I:
> 1) Leave it as is. (please say no please say no please say no)
> 2) Make an exception for the version-too-new case.
> 3) Change this and *do* display these errors, in all cases.
> 

(L)user point of view: I'm for 3)

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Marco Ciampa

I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it.

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