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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You heard it here first: not a tentative plan, a definite plan :) (or at
least as definite as these things get)

Project format will be changing, and the extension will change to kicad_pro
along with it.
The extension change will not apply to the existing file format.
This change is tied to other work to extract project settings from various
files and put them in a more logical place, to make it easier to copy
settings between projects and enable other features.

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:27 PM Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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