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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, the current algorithm renames files that either match the project name (with any extension), or start with the project name followed by a dash.  We don’t need to know the extension in either case.

This feels right to me, but I’m open to discussion.

Cheers,
Jeff.

> On 11 Nov 2019, at 20:29, Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> In my opinion we should not rename any generated files.  This matches my experience with other tools.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 3:28 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> On 2019-11-11 11:42, Jeff Young wrote:
> 
> > Ahhhh... I didn't notice that.  We are indeed failing to look for the 
> > Protel extensions.
> 
> Are we renaming generated files?  If we stick with base project files, 
> it's easy to explain where the cut-off is.  Once we go down into 
> generated files, this gets harder and harder especially as we start 
> implementing more exports (IPC-2581, D-365, XY files, etc) where we 
> don't control the extensions.
> 
> -Seth
> 
> 
> Seth Hillbrand
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