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[Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2017-11-27 02:48 AM, jp charras wrote:
> I am thinking the "offset" should be written in footprint (and board) files *only* if it is not 0,0,0
>
> With this patch, all footprint files will be incompatible with stable version, due to a not used
> (most of time) parameter.
> Moreover footprint files have no version identification.

If a patch is going to be introduced that will break compatibility with the 
stable version this sounds like a good time to add file version information 
to the footprint files.

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