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[Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Copying and pasting Jeff's text from the forum since it wasn't in his
original email to this list:

"First the small text: the rule syntax WILL CHANGE. What’s there today is a
PROTOTYPE. There will be NO TOOLS for migrating today’s rules to later
rules. Think of it as a sandbox, not a work-in-progress."

The kind of feedback we are most interested in at this point is around
whether this kind of system can meet all your needs in terms of defining
design rules.

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:24 PM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> You can file this as an issue if you'd like, but it's already planned to
> completely re-do this UI at some point once we know what the actual DRC
> implementation will be.
>
> We're not doing that yet because the new system is still very much in flux.
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 3:22 PM Diego Herranz <
> diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's nice getting a powerful rules system. Thank you for all the work.
>>
>> Just because it is slightly related to this. I find misleading that
>> opening Inspect > Design Rules Checker, you get access to modify Minimum
>> Track Width, Minimum via size and minimum uVia size. That is a subset of
>> the Constraints in the revamped Board Setup dialog.
>> Personally, I would remove them from Inspect > Design Rules Checker.
>> If this was well received, let me know and I can raise a gitlab issue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Diego
>>
>> On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 16:04, Evan Shultz <evan.shultz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Awesome! Thanks Jeff!
>>>
>>> I'm just starting to look at this and I have something quick to mention
>>> regarding the UI: At Design Rules > Constraints in the 'Zone fill strategy'
>>> section, the options are two checkboxes but they appear to be
>>> mutually-exclusive. Should they be radio buttons instead?
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:21 PM <mdoesbur@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Excellent, now it works :-)
>>>>
>>>> I'll test the big board tomorrow. For me this was the most important
>>>> feature missing from kicad, thanks for making it work.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> Mark.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         Congrats on the first bug!
>>>>
>>>>         Actually 4 separate ones: the caching mechanism was causing the
>>>> rules to not be loaded when the board was read, the zone cutout stuff
>>>> wasn???t fully hooked up to the new rules engine, there???s no
>>>> "Net-(C1-Pad2)" netclass in the document (only "Net-(C1-Pad1)???), and the
>>>> code responded poorly to failing to find a net (putting subsequent nets
>>>> off-by-one).
>>>>
>>>>         The third one is yours. ;)
>>>>
>>>>         Fixes for the other three are now in master (if you build your
>>>> own); otherwise you can get them from tonight???s nightly.
>>>>
>>>>         Cheers,
>>>>         Jeff.
>>>>
>>>>         > On 18 May 2020, at 12:01, mdoesbur@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>         >
>>>>         > Sorry, forgot to attach the project.
>>>>         >
>>>>         >
>>>>         > <drc.zip>
>>>>
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