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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne-

Am Fr., 28. Sep. 2018 um 05:00 Uhr schrieb Wayne Stambaugh <
stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> > If we do want to maintain the actual SEGZONE object on the board, we
> > should port the command to clear it over to GAL as well.
>
> This would be my preference as it keeps with our stance about not
> silently changing boards at load time.  I think in this case that users
> would convert over to polygon fills but I don't think we should force
> that on them.  I'm OK with not allowing editing of the old SEGZONE
> objects since we no longer support them and asking the user if they want
> to convert them to a polygon filled zone but silently doing this is
> dubious.
>

OK.  So the plan is to keep the segments as a SEGZONE object but ignore it
in all connectivity and DRC.  I will port the "Delete Segment Zone" command
to GAL.

Let me know if I've missed/misunderstood anything here.

-Seth