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From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Fwd: [pcb-rnd] connectivity bug -> fullpoly again
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Date:	Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:18:47 -0400
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IIRC Peter and I talked about this long ago, and one solution we came up
with was to have a "polygon stack" so you could do things like "invert
this section" or "cut this polygon with this line" (different than
clearing a polygon with a trace).  The user would edit the things at the
bottom of the stack (the original polygons, cut lines, etc), but the
system would see the "virtual polygons" at the top (result) of the
stack.  It added a bunch of functionality and fixed the full poly
problem, but neither of us ended up implementing it.

So yeah, old problem.  Bug?  Feature?  You decide :-)

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