Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCAD file formats

2011-02-02 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 2/1/2011 11:00 PM, Nils Hesse wrote: > On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Wayne Stambaugh > wrote: >> The decision was made not to use XML due to human readability issues. A >> project is currently in progress to use an S-expression based design for >> this reason. S-expressions look a bit lik

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCAD file formats

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Hesse
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > The decision was made not to use XML due to human readability issues.  A > project is currently in progress to use an S-expression based design for > this reason.   S-expressions look a bit like the LISP programming > language.  Search the m

Re: [Kicad-developers] KiCAD file formats

2011-02-01 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
On 2/1/2011 6:41 PM, Nils Hesse wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to ask if there's a particular reason why KiCAD uses its own > file formats. Why KiCAD doesn't simply use for example XML? Nils, The decision was made not to use XML due to human readability issues. A project is currently in progress to

[Kicad-developers] KiCAD file formats

2011-02-01 Thread Nils Hesse
Hi, I wanted to ask if there's a particular reason why KiCAD uses its own file formats. Why KiCAD doesn't simply use for example XML? Also I wanted to ask if there's any plan to add support for using white spaces in the name of schematic symbols or footprints. I think the problem of not supporti