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Re: Consider changing .pro extension in the future

 

There is a tentative plan to change this to a `.kicad_pro` file in v6, but
it hasn't been completely thought through yet. See
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2169#note_286814996.

-Ian

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:05 PM RigoLigo RLC <rigoligo03@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> The .pro project file extension might be a historical problem, but I
> really should mention that this extension was used by too many programs,
> for example, Qt Creator.
>
> Now the kicad_sch extension came with the S-expression style schematics
> format, I'd like to ask would KiCad plan to change the project file
> extension name.
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