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Re: Consider changing .pro extension in the future

 

It's on my TODO list, it will happen as part of a new project format
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2169

-Jon

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:18 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I'm pretty sure this has been discussed to death but but until a new
> project file format is created, the file extension will remain .pro.
> It's bad enough that this clashes with other applications but having an
> internal file format clash just fix something unrelated to KiCad doesn't
> make much sense to me.  This is problem that affects many applications
> not just KiCad.
>
> On 5/7/20 12:04 PM, RigoLigo RLC 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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