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Re: File format version increment

 


File version issues have hit me a couple times when collaborating. Solutions involve either installing bunch of binaries, stable first, then nightlies, until we find a compatible one, or 'fixing' the file by hand editing to a previous design.

It would be really nice to the user if you used the old file version for designs that had no long names. (or whatever other incremental special case feature change required the version bump)

I know writing code with different types of users in different situations takes extra effort, but everything you guys do so that kicad *just works* on the user side has a huge impact.




On 20/09/17 04:38, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
For your information: support for long pad and pin names has been just
merged. As the change affects both eeschema and pcbnew, and may result
in files that are not loaded correctly with older versions - the file
format versions had to be incremented.

Regards,
Orson



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