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[Maciej Suminski <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

Wayne,

After reading Andrzej's and Jean-Pierre's justifications, I understood
the reaction and agree it is too early for such change. Thanks for
reverting the patch, let's roll with v5!

Cheers,
Orson

On 02/24/2018 02:46 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Orson,
> 
> The problem is that users have been using zones in non-copper layers so
> the expectation is that they will be able to continue to use them.  I
> tested this and when you create a zone on a non-copper zone using the
> zone editor tool, it actually saves the object as a zone which is
> different from a filled polygon object as Andrzej pointed out.  I'm
> going to revert this patch for rc1.  We can discuss alternatives for the
> stable 5 release but we definitely should not be pulling the rug out
> from under users who have come to expect a certain behavior without some
> serious discussion.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 02/24/2018 02:42 AM, Maciej Suminski wrote:
>> Sorry for late answer, I will not have a reliable Internet connection
>> until Sunday evening. I removed the option to draw ZONE_CONTAINERs as
>> they are dedicated to copper layers. For graphical items there is
>> DRAWSEGMENT of POLYGON type. If you find it unacceptable, please
>> revert the commit. I am not going to insist to keep it that way, if it
>> is a reason to delay v5 release.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Orson
>>
>> On February 24, 2018 12:28:11 AM GMT+01:00, Wayne Stambaugh
>> <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>     Orson,
>>
>>     Is there any reason not to allow zones to be drawn on non-copper
>> layers?
>>       The changes you made in this commit would seem to indicate there
>> was a
>>     reason not to allow this.  I'm going to hold off on rc1 until we get
>>     this resolved.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>
>>     Wayne
>>
>>     On 02/23/2018 06:10 PM, Andrzej Wolski wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         after this change:
>>        
>> https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=fea71c9f8f02c59a05de19293a8ce5a55432527b
>>
>>
>>
>>         I can no logner draw zones on non copper layers.
>>         Was that intentional?
>>
>>         Andrzej
>>
>>
>>
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