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Re: Netlist file extensions

 

If no one can confirm that other EDA applications require a fixed file
extension to work correctly, I would leave it as is.  If there is any
requirement later, we can always tweak it as part of a bug fix release.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 04/18/2018 07:06 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> If no one else is familiar with this either then we can just go with
> what we have now.
> 
> But I thought I’d ping the dev group one more time in case someone does….
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
> 
> 
>> On 26 Mar 2018, at 01:04, Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> The PADS-PCB netlist evidently needs an extension of .asc to be read
>> correctly[1].
>>
>> I implemented a reg-ex which takes the pen-ultimate file extension
>> from the XSL file and applies it to the output file.  So the script
>> for the above-mentioned netlist exporter is now:
>>
>> netlist_form_pads-pcb.asc.xsl
>>
>> Would any of the other XLS scripts benefit from this?  I don’t know
>> enough about the different formats to know if they have well-known
>> extensions.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jeff.
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1591779
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