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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

This will require some more discussion to see how it may or may not
impact the new constraint management system.  I'm not opposed to it but
it will require a bit of coordination with the devs who are working on
the new constraint system.

On 2/21/2019 9:04 PM, hauptmech wrote:
> 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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