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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/2017 03:07 AM, jp charras wrote:
> Le 11/11/2017 à 05:51, Seth Hillbrand a écrit :
>> Wayne-
>>
>> Thank you for taking the time to look at this patch.  I recognize that you and the other devs have a
>> lot on your plate, so I appreciate the constructive feedback. I'll approach the list with a sketch
>> in the future for large patches.
>>
>> I've addressed the coding policy violations and dialog alignment issues in the attached patch.
> 
> Hi Seth,
> Are you sure the plot functions can handle this line style parameter?

Good catch JP.  Seth, this needs to be addressed for all of the plog and
print functions otherwise there will be a bunch of bug reports.  You may
have a substantial amount of additional work in order to fix all of this.

> 
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 4:40 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Just because you found a work around in the parser does not mean your
>>     change does not constitute a file format change.  When someone loads a
>>     schematic in an earlier version of eeschema and saves the schematic, all
>>     of this information will be lost.  That smells like a file format change
>>     to me.  If I were going to accept this patch, it would require a file
>>     version bump.  I would also prefer that you didn't use tabs in the file
>>     writer.  Did you try loading this with stable version 4 which uses the
>>     old parser?
>>
>>
>> ​Agreed.  This is a format change and I understand the preference even if it is backwards
>> compatible.  I have verified that schematics do open as expected in 4.0.5 and 4.0.7 under Linux and
>> Mac.  Of course, 4.0.5 and 4.0.7 expect file format version '2' and master currently writes version
>> '3', so there is the standard warning message about possible problems.​  But formatted lines revert
>> to standard graphic lines as expected.
>>
>> On the tabs issue, I'm afraid I'm not clear which tabs you are referencing.  In the current
>> schematic file format, the wire data lines are indented with a tab but that has been in place for
>> some time (at least since version 2).  But maybe I am misinterpreting your comment here? 
>>
>> ​Best-
>> Seth​
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