On 1 September 2011 14:58, Fred Cooke <fred.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can't improve anything without making changes, Dick.
An oxymoron there considering you're trying to argue the below: > And his point re > breaking the API that exists (he's not the only one who has scripts against > your text files and prefers kicad for text file storage reasons) is valid. API !? Since when is a file format an API? It isn't. Also, it is a myth formed in this thread that Dick changed the file format anyway. Go and look in the file format specification, the only thing that changed about the format in Jan 2009 was that the number of possible fields increased due to the work on the template fields, which was a very welcome addition to KiCad (Thanks again Dick for completing that work!). The OP's script relied on the field number being consistent, but this couldn't be the case after the template field names improvement. There was no written guarantee in the file format about this number, and it would seem minimally intrusive that after 2 years of this improvement being implemented someone's external script needs a bit of maintenance. This doesn't seem unreasonable. Hopefully the developers will see past the moaning and carry on their excellent work. It is appreciated by some! $0.02 towards all the developers wages right there... Best Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
