> On Nov 11, 2019, at 1:28 PM, Seth Hillbrand <s...@kipro-pcb.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-11-11 11:42, Jeff Young wrote:
> 
>> Ahhhh... I didn't notice that.  We are indeed failing to look for the Protel 
>> extensions.
> 
> Are we renaming generated files?  If we stick with base project files, it's 
> easy to explain where the cut-off is.  Once we go down into generated files, 
> this gets harder and harder especially as we start implementing more exports 
> (IPC-2581, D-365, XY files, etc) where we don't control the extensions.

Unless I’m mistaken, isn’t the use case for “Project Save As” to fork a new 
project from one that exists? In that case, the generated files, like Gerbers 
and the net list, are immediately invalid as soon as the user starts to make 
modifications to the project. Nobody keeps the .o files around after the 
application is built … 

And regarding the use of “Project Save As,” consider the plight of users who 
keep projects in a source-code control repository. I realize that this is a can 
of worms. 

-a
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