I don't see why you couldn't have both, an embedded version of the actual setup and the ability to import/export from/to an external file.
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Neal Hollingsworth <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I've mostly been lurking on the list, but thought I would make a > suggestion regarding the via stack configuration. It might be nice to store > the actual configuration/stack-up/DRC settings in an external file. The > idea is that these are processes paraders that are deaigned to in most > cases. This would make it possible have have e.g. A configuration file for > a specific board house and price point. The board file would then only need > to store a reference to the configuration file. Just a thought, take it for > whatever it's worth! > Neal Hollingsworth > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:44 PM Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 8/31/2017 1:21 PM, Bastian Neumannn wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am currently building a feature that lets you input a via stack >> > configuration. >> > This information needs to be saved with the pcb data. So I tried putting >> > it into >> > the kicad_pcb file. >> > >> > Now older versions will not load the file because it has additional >> > values that >> > it did not expect. >> > >> > How do you deal with that problem? >> >> The official policy is that file format changes must be backwards >> compatible not forwards compatible. In other words, the user will have >> to download the version KiCad where the change was made. >> >> If you make any changes to any of the file formats, you must increment >> the file format rev number. This will cause the appropriate exception >> to be raised which will warn the user the file version is newer than the >> file version supported by the version of KiCad they are using. >> >> Since this is all very new and has not been planned for the stable 5 >> release, I would most likely merge this into the master branch after the >> stable 5 branch is created. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Basti >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > -- > Neal > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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