But even doing that is going to be more work, as they’re going to have to delete a whole pile of old files….
I have several old projects that I haven’t opened since the 4.0.x days. I may want to move them, but regenerating the Gerbers wouldn’t necessarily generate the same files. (It might if I was careful not to refill zones, but I’d still rather not find out, and if I knew less about the code I’d be even more reticent.) > On 11 Nov 2019, at 20:42, Ian McInerney <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > > I agree, we should only be transferring and renaming the non-generated files > rather than trying to account for every possible file under the sun. If the > user wants the generated files, they can regenerate them from the new project. > > -Ian > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2019, 20:30 Jon Evans, <j...@craftyjon.com > <mailto:j...@craftyjon.com>> wrote: > In my opinion we should not rename any generated files. This matches my > experience with other tools. > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 3:28 PM Seth Hillbrand <s...@kipro-pcb.com > <mailto:s...@kipro-pcb.com>> wrote: > On 2019-11-11 11:42, Jeff Young wrote: > > > Ahhhh... I didn't notice that. We are indeed failing to look for the > > Protel extensions. > > Are we renaming generated files? If we stick with base project files, > it's easy to explain where the cut-off is. Once we go down into > generated files, this gets harder and harder especially as we start > implementing more exports (IPC-2581, D-365, XY files, etc) where we > don't control the extensions. > > -Seth > > > Seth Hillbrand > KiCad Services Corporation > https://www.kipro-pcb.com <https://www.kipro-pcb.com/> > +1 530 302 5483 | +1 212 603 9372 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp>
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