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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Do you know for how long the bug was present? It could help estimate the
number of schematic files affected.

As much as I hate windows popping up, I do not think notifying the users
would be that annoying. It is going to happen only once for each invalid
file. I doubt there are people working on 10+ designs in parallel.

I vote for #3. IMHO #4 is acceptable too. I would avoid #1 and #2 in
particular.

Regards,
Orson

On 03/30/2017 07:33 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> I have found and fixed the bug in this bug report:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1677282
> 
> This bug creates invalid schematic files which sets the component unit
> flag to 0 and breaks the netlist generator.  The fix itself is simple.
> What is not simple is what to do about the invalid schematic files that
> have already been created.  I added code to schematic parser to fix this
> but this creates a dilemma.  Technically the schematic is modified which
> begs the question, what to do next.  None of the following choices are
> particularly appealing:
> 
> 1) Do nothing and leave the file in an invalid status until the next
> time the user saves the schematic.  This is probably the most convenient
> but what about broken schematics being used by versions of kicad prior
> to this fix?
> 
> 2) Set the schematic modified status which will trigger a save warning
> when eeschema is closed even if the user hasn't made any changes.  We
> already do this with SCH_SCREEN::SchematicCleanUp() that gets called
> lots of places outside of schematic editing.  The problem with this is
> that the user has no idea why they are getting a save warning when they
> didn't actually change anything.
> 
> 3) Set the schematic modified status and inform the user that there was
> an error in their schematic file that was repaired on load and requires
> saving.  This is the most informative for the user but reeks of nagware.
> 
> 4) Silently save the corrected schematic with no user interaction.  This
> will undoubtedly make VCS users unhappy.
> 
> As much as I hate nagware, I like unexpected save warnings when I
> haven't changed anything even less so I'm leaning towards option 3.  Any
> feedback would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Wayne
> 
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