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ID:4175
From:Gabriel Paubert <pa...@iram.es>
Date:Fri, 12 Jun 2020 13:28:37 +0200
Subject:Re: [pcb-rnd] pcb import broken
in-reply-to:4169 from ge...@igor2.repo.hu
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 07:36:14AM +0200, gedau@igor2.repo.hu wrote:
> Hello Gabriel,
> 
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, Gabriel Paubert wrote:
> 
> >	Hi Igor2,
> >
> >today I tried to have a look at old boards designed with PCB and pcb-rnd
> >exits very quickly when importing them.
> >
> >I even fired pcb (something I had not done in a very long time),
> >created and save an empty board. pcb-rnd is unable to load it.
> 
> Thanks, fixed in r31858, please test!
 
Fixed (tested on several boards, small and large, 2 to 6 layers), thanks.
 
> 
> >
> >I don't know for how long this has been the case, but the ability to
> >import old designs and convert them to pcb-rnd is something I really
> >need from time to time.
> 
> It was in for 9 days!
> 
> On the birght side: as part of the NGI0 project I defined a milestone 
> assigned to make automated tests for alien file formats. Catching this bug 
> by hand in 9 days is extremely good - we really have an excellent user 
> base with the testing. Plus it is good that we have scheduled releases and 
> stop feature development (which intrdocued this bug too) at 2/3 of the dev 
> cycle so we have time to find bugs like this before the release. But I 
> think some automatism on this could improve that some more.
> 
 
Indeed, a few automated tests never hurt.
 
	Regards,
	Gabriel
 
 
> Best regards,
> 
> Igor2
> 
> 
 
 
 

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