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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

I agree, we should only be transferring and renaming the non-generated
files rather than trying to account for every possible file under the sun.
If the user wants the generated files, they can regenerate them from the
new project.

-Ian

On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, 20:30 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> 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
>>
>>
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