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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is not a project priority and is not going to happen.  If you want
a more detailed explanation, please search the dev mailing list archives.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 7/2/2019 12:20 PM, Dino Ghilardi wrote:
> Just a thought (may be a little off-topic):
> 
>     Since old pcbnew versions will not be able to open files in new
> format, there should be a way to export a pcb in the "old/stable"
> format, so that when testing latest development version of pcbnew on an
> old board (and saving it) can be undone without editing manually the
> files (of course exporting in the old format will loose new features but
> ensures to be able to go back to a stable version if something goes
> wrong during the tests).
> 
> As an example, lately I was asked to produce some schematic files using
> the "stable" version of kicad (the files were supposed to be used also
> by "non-developers"). Since old versions did read the new files I did
> use the latest eeschema version, tested it, found some bugs etc...
> Without being able to export to the "stable" file format I would not be
> allowed to use (and test) latest dev versions. May be this can be a
> problem to other testers too.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dino.
> 
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