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[hauptmech <hauptmech@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have a patch for treating track clearance the same as track width. The 
user can already specify a track width that is an exception to the 
netclass width, and now do the same for clearance. ( 
https://youtu.be/05vfAvYwDio )

It's bitrotted for a year so I'd want an Ok before putting in the work 
to bring it up to date.

Thomasz raised a concern at the time on a related, smaller, patch:

> - we are planning to overhaul the clearance/design rules system in V6.
> Storing the clearance *DIRECTLY* for each track segment/via will
> conflict with any more sophisticated design rule management system.

Noting that clearance is only stored on segments that are exceptions to 
the netclass (or whatever  DRM might be added); I disagree with this. 
Happy to discuss it if the concern remains.

I believe the patch functionality and UI changes would not overlap any 
design rules management system as it's focused on manual control of 
clearance only. Some (maybe all, I don't recall exactly) of the UI 
elements are only present when manual clearances are being used in the 
design so there is little impact on users that don't use it.

-Hauptmech




On 22/02/2019 9:21 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> Since we are nearing the 5.1.0 release, I want to get an idea of what
> major merges are ready to go once 5.1 is branched.  I know Jon's netlist
> code is ready to merge and I'm pretty sure that should be the first big
> merge.  Does anyone else have any major changes they want to merge as
> soon as v6 starts?  I would like to get an idea of what changes to
> expect so we can avoid any serious merge chaos.  Please let me know what
> you have in the queue so I can get an idea of how we should proceed with
> the merges.
>
> TIA,
>
> Wayne
>
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