On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 07:31:47PM +0100, John Beard wrote: > it will show you what it can. You'd be annoyed if it didn't, it would be > like Flash needing the latest version to watch your video, without the > excuse that is necessary to implement the latest and greatest DRM fad.
Uhm... doesn't actually flash or java work this way? I uninstalled them after being tired of the weekly updates.... > It's not because *I* don't want to upgrade, *I'm* to the one who's > hypothetically extended some aspect of the footprint format for my own > ends. It's because J. Random McTrunkBuild (or even his cousin, > McDistroVersion) shouldn't need to recompile with a patch from me to > read a footprint of mine which has my field "(user_sku 45443)" or > "(jedec_ref "SOT45")" in it, when he doesn't need or care about that > field. Yay my problem too. I added support for courtyard and assembly layers because I needed them but the whole idea was rejected (in the meantime on the user list they keep asking how to do it...). Obviously now they can't be read by a stock pcbnew if I use them... the sexp quoting at least was backward compatible. I'm still convinced that a simple generic something like (attribute "user_sku" "45443"), like that supported by gencad would be useful for your needs. eeschema attributes works like that, too. -- Lorenzo Marcantonio Logos Srl _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
