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[Eldar Khayrullin <eldar.khayrullin@xxxxxxx>]

Hello, Wayne.
As I said early in https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1720542
extension like .DXF or .dxf are more common (>90%) than other (man 
types).
Maybe we should use this common cases?

В Вторник, 7 ноя. 2017 в 4:23 П. П., Wayne Stambaugh 
<stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> написал:
> Oliver,
>
> I'm fine with your patch but as a project we need to be more careful
> about file extensions on case sensitive platforms.  There is already a
> bug report about this for the GTK+ file dialog.  Your list of step and
> iges file extensions is not complete.  If someone uses "Iges", "igeS",
> ... no matter how unlikely it is, it will fail to find a legitimate
> file.  I'll commit this as is but we definitely need to rethink case
> sensitive file extension support.  Having a list of every possible
> combination of upper and lower case letters for a single file 
> extension
> is ugly.  Perhaps regular expressions would be helpful in this case.  
> I
> didn't see anything in wxFileName or wxDir that would allow us to do
> this but maybe there is some undocumented way to handle this.  We 
> cannot
> be the first project to encounter this issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 11/7/2017 8:03 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> >  Following on from the STEP / WRL substitution patch earlier today:
> >
> >  Nick suggested that IGES should be searched for if there are no STEP
> >  models found.
> >
> >  This simple patch does that. If no step models are found, it then
> >  searches for iges.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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