On 05/01/2013 12:18 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote: > I was testing stuff and well... in the kicad_brd file the sheet date is > not saved. I found this pearl in TITLE_BLOCK::Format: > > /* version control users were complaining, see mailing list. > if( !m_date.IsEmpty() ) > aFormatter->Print( aNestLevel+1, "(date %s)\n", > aFormatter->Quotew( m_date ).c_str() ); > */ > > What is a field useful for if it's not saved? It always come up empty, in this > way. > > In many companies the date on a drawing is actually more important than the > drawing version number (in fact ISO/EN 7200:2004 requires the date of issue, > which is legally binding for a number of things). Other dates (approval, > modifications and so on) are optional but the "document date" is mandatory. > > I think the best solution would be putting the date as an editable field (with > the title, company and so on): this would eliminate the localization issue and > in the mean time allow a 'significant' date to be set (not necessarily that's > the last modified date, for a number of reasons). Also the vcs users wouldn't > have to complain (I don't see the problem if a date changes in a versioned > file... maybe they don't like it).
OK, I remember now. Your suggestion of having it editable is OK for me. But is not OK for others. There are 4 schools of thought, and funny thing is you and I are in the same camp after all. 1) Make it editable, and fixed, not dynamically updated. If I put in a date, it stays that way forever on disk too. 2) Make it dynamic (i.e. automatically updated), reflective of the last time of board *modification*, not last time of save. 3) Make it dynamic (i.e. automatically updated), reflective of the last time of board *save*. 4) Remove it, keep it out of the file, until the dispute is settled. We were at 4). If we uncomment the code, we get 2), and then I get yelled at again by the VCS users. I don't want to keep getting yelled at. :) It gets hard to remember being yelled at. Jean-Pierre is in camp 2). I am in camp 1) or 4), just because the VCS users will eventually win, I recognize that, and I want the problem to go away. I use VCS too, and reporting a new date for every change is not especially helpful to me, with my VCS user hat on, and advocating for those I know will complain later. Been there, and had that conversation already. Help wanted. :) 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
