| ID: | 5728 |
| From: | John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com> |
| Date: | Fri, 8 Jul 2022 13:35:13 -0600 |
| Subject: | Re: [pcb-rnd] file name policy change proposal |
| in-reply-to: | 5726 from Bdale Garbee <bd...@gag.com> |
| replies: | 5729 from Robert Neal <in...@inspect.house> |
On 7/8/22 11:23, Bdale Garbee wrote: > f the default file name creation in the relevant case yields a > file ending in .pcb that contains lihata content, that makes things more > complicated for those of us with structured Makefile includes that think > they know what a .pcb means. Right. That's what I was thinking of also, not from the perspective of creating a new file, but reuse in general. On 7/8/22 11:36, rnd2@igor2.repo.hu wrote: > In what situation would you name your initial file foo.pcb when running > pcb-rnd instead of foo.lht knowing your Makefile expects foo.lht for > lihata? Probably that would not happen. But if foo.pcb starts to mean based on lihata structure, then it is a confusion for old makefiles. > > Or are you trying to create a geda/pcb file using pcb-rnd? (Why?) That could happen when making examples for customers to use with geda, but is easy to do without confusion. And if > so, isn't "save as" a better/safer option if you explicitly want to make > sure you start a new file in an alien format Sure.
Reply subtree:
5728 Re: [pcb-rnd] file name policy change proposal from John Griessen <jo...@cibolo.com>
5729 Re: [pcb-rnd] file name policy change proposal from Robert Neal <in...@inspect.house>