Will the new schematic file format embed subsheets? Or keep them in separate files on disk?
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:44 Andy Peters, <de...@latke.net> wrote: > > > On Mar 28, 2018, at 7:34 PM, Seth Hillbrand <seth.hillbr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi All- > > I'm working on a bug in renaming sub-sheets. In testing the fix, I've run > up against a set of conflicting paradigms for how subsheets are handled. > I'd like some feedback on how we expect to handle the subsheets. > > Either: > 1) we treat them as actual objects such that renaming the sheet's filename > renames the file on the computer but keeps the contents unchanged or > 2) we treat them as links to the objects and renaming the filename of > the subsheet doesn't change the subsheet's file but instead just changes > which file is referenced. > > Right now, we do both depending on whether there is an existing file and > more than one reference to the subsheet or not. This is confusing as it is > difficult to determine when an operation will result in actually > overwriting an existing file and thereby losing data. > > I'm inclined to make all actions (2). This would allow a subsheet file to > become unlinked from the project if you change the filename referencing it > but would not allow overwriting subsheets on disk. > > Does anyone feel strongly that (1) is the correct action? > > > If the project is in source-code control, then Kicad renaming a file > that’s under that control breaks things. > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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