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Many of the professional CAD packages do this and it makes collaboration 
with people that need to run an older version more difficult.


On 23/02/2019 10:48 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi Seth,
>
> On 22.02.19 18:11, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>
> > It should be easier for new features as they don't need the wrap the
> > parsing in versioning checks; especially for semantic changes.  It may
> > be more effort when changing underlying structures that are shared
> > between parsers.
> Would it make sense to have a separate "update" process, so the parser
> in the loader will never have to deal with legacy files?
>
> When the user opens a file with a lower version number, we branch into
> an update wizard that handles updating the file, rewrites it as the new
> version and then restarts the load process.
>
> This way we could also keep the schematic element rescue outside of the
> loader code.
>
>     Simon
>
>
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