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[Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-11-10 04:42 PM, Kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> Storing every value except one in mm is just confusing. The proposed 
> solution will not break  *any* existing library.Â
>
> The file format is already not consistent with old versions of kicad. Please 
> do not be afraid of moving towards something more consistent and please stop 
> defending having bad design decision just because it has always been that way.Â

I clicked Send a bit too quickly. I also meant to add that pcbnew files are 
versioned so you can use the version number in the file to automatically 
apply a one time correction to the offset that was stored in the wrong units.

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