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[easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think the master branch already has enough new features to make its
> output incompatible with v4. 'Offset' approach seems the easiest and
> cleanest solution IMHO.

the 'offset' thing is creating a stopper for kicad 4 release as well as 
i.e. rounded rectangle pad does... kicad 4 just would stop loading the 
board....
but the offset is a very 'basic' feature compared to rounded rectangle 
which is extremely rared used...

The new field 'offset' instead of 'at' or eventually the use of both 
depending of the offset values in the descriptor seems top me a big 
headache just to avoid the initial 'inconsistency' of a footprint 
descriptor that had 'deci-mils' for a single internal field, but that 
was just correctly managed by the sw...


Cheers
Maurice



On 11/23/2017 9:05 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
> I think the master branch already has enough new features to make its
> output incompatible with v4. 'Offset' approach seems the easiest and
> cleanest solution IMHO.
>
> Cheers,
> Orson
>
> On 11/22/2017 11:16 PM, Oliver Walters wrote:
> > I understand this will break "forwards compatibility" if opening a v5 file
> > from v4. Sometimes such changes are unavoidable.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 8:44 AM, easyw <easyw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: