>> And please define a fileformat with color assignments for netnames,
>> and/or regular expressoins. For example
>
> Do we want to entertain the idea of a new file format at this time?
Entertain, yes. Whether we move or not can be discussed later.
However, there are so many things we could do with a new file format,
it makes sense to at least discuss what new features we would like to
support, IMO.
Some thoughts:
* All the new layers.
* Levente's idea about storing the colors of each layer.
* Store config info relevant to the design (i.e. DRCs, track widths,
etc.) Maybe PCB already does this?
* How about not embedding the footprint into the .pcb file? Or doing
it optionally, a la gschem?
* Support for footprint rotations at arbitrary angles.
* Get rid of the part of the long preamble which defines what all
alphabetic characters look like.
* Support for reading in and storing out comments.
These are the things which occur to me within 1 or 2 minutes. There
must be more.....
Dare I suggest that some type of XML or XML-like tree structured
format might be a good thing? I don't necessarily like XML, but I do
appreciate the advantages of having a file format which is extensible,
i.e. we can add new tags while not breaking older parsers. Maybe
there's a way to do that using a line-oriented file format?
Stuart
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