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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah - my general impression from a number of inconsistencies in the
file format vs. the spec is that KiCad's file format really should be
considered implementation-defined.

In order to have a _proper_ file format spec, it seems to be that two
things need to be done:

1. Put the format spec _in the repository_
2. Version it, and require anybody changing the format in the code to:
    a. Update the YYYYMMDD version that gets written to the file
       (technically we already require this, but I've seen a couple
       changes go in without doing this...)
    b. Make a new format spec version and document the change

Until we do that, it's implementation-defined with a wannabe spec :P

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 11:23:42PM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> Normally when we speak of "the docs" we are not talking about the
> fileformat specs, but the stuff in https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-doc
> 
> 2017-02-24 23:22 GMT+01:00 Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On 2017-02-23 01:29 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> >>
> >> The docs are not quite ready yet,
> >
> >
> > Documentation is (almost) always the last thing to get written or updated. I
> > was making use of the file formats document while working on a project of
> > mine to convert schematics from another program in to one that can be read
> > by Kicad. I found a lot of issues with the docs.
> >
> > I was told Wayne maintains that document. I'll be emailing him to find out
> > what the procedure is for providing information about the changes needed.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Kevin.
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