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Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:19:29 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] A new PCB file format - modular system
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> What surprises me is that it looks like you were able to do
> everything with PCBType.  I don't remember the gruesome details now
> but last time I tried to make the existing parser work independent
> of pcb I ended up with the impression that PCBType didn't reflect
> everything that goes in pcb files -- close but not quite everything.

Note that one of the messy and probably written rules about hid is -
the hid module can do whatever it wants with core data and functions,
but the core can only access the hid module via the published API.

So if an importer/exporter needs more data than PCBType, it can just
reach in and get it.

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