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Date: | Thu, 17 Apr 2014 14:00:07 -0700 |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] pcb graphical objects spec |
From: | Britton Kerin <britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com> |
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 1:21 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > >> What are the other generators? > > Anything a user writes that conforms to the syntax. > >> The only two I can come up with are footprint generators and the pcb >> export of pstotext. > > I have some scripts that generate *.pcb files directly. > >> If a footprint generator generates *.pcb files that are not >> consistent with the output of pcb, I'd consider this a bug. The bug >> may happen to be inconsequential because pcb interprets the file in >> the intended way, but still a bug. > > No, this is the purpose of a spec. The spec says that line separators > are ignored, and both pcb and the generators honor that. Just because > the spec allows for arbitrary formatting doesn't mean that we have to > pick one. How about documenting what pcb currently does, and what transformation is required to transform a conforming instance to the present reality? Its great to have a spec but I bet 9/10 people that parse .pcb files aren't ever looking at it, but just working from the file to do what they need. Britton
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