Human readability/usability/ease of learning would also be helped with some standardization.
On 8/04/2012 8:23 p.m., Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 04/08/2012 11:38 AM, lajos kamocsay wrote: >> Hi Wayne- >> >> >> The new file format looks awesome. Very simple and readable. >> >> Would it be possible to standardize the transformation data? Currently >> there seems to be a couple different formats, some examples: >> >> (draw line (pts xy(76.581 47.9425) xy(77.724 47.9425)) (layer 21) >> (width 0.127)) >> >> (size 1.016 1.651) >> >> (at -1.524 0) >> >> (at (xyz 0 0 0)) >> (scale (xyz 0.17 0.16 0.16)) >> (rotate (xyz 0 0 0)) >> >> I think having a standard format would be very helpful for external >> utilities reading/writing kicad data, like: > > Without diminishing your point about standardization, I suggest that Miquel's > scripting > interface will soon be the recommended way to write "external tools". > > And as such, folks writing directly to the KiCad file formats will be missing > the point of > the scripting API, so they will not get any of my attention, at least. > > Back to the transformation data, we have both 3d and 2d transforms, and it > would be > sensible to allow them to be different. Also, the SWEET parser is already > written, works > on 2d transform data, and I assume Wayne took that into consideration. > Changing the 2d > SWEET stuff is something I would not embrace easily. > > I am not taking such a position on this new BOARD format yet however, but > rather keeping > an open mind. However, achieving some 2d transform similarly between SWEET > and BOARD > might have at least some value. > > > Dick > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
