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On Sun, 1 Sep 2013, Markus Hitter wrote:

> Am 01.09.2013 16:36, schrieb miho23 AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu:
>>
>> I am not against it, as long as it doesn't cost me any time. In other
>> words: my work is in a public svn repo (with micro commits, tagged
>> commit messages, etc);
>
> Please reconsider this part of your attitude. Nobody cares about stuff
> *somewhere* in the net and essentially you're asking somebody else to
> duplicate your work. You're the one who understands what you did, so
> some help of yours is required to get this into the official repo.

Sorry, there is a misunderstanding here. I never wanted these patched to 
get in the main repo. I only suggested that keeping unknown flags in the 
file on save/load would be generally useful and should be considered. The 
reason was that while working on my fork, I figured the compatibility 
issue and I thought you may have the same issue among branches in git.

> That said, it shouldn't be difficult to create patches for the whole
> thing, if one just knows where to start. Easier than trying to extract
> only parts of it.

I can create a patch of all the features you pick. Some features obviously 
depend on other features. Please run

   svn log svn://repo.hu/pcb-rnd/trunk

to see what patches I have in there.

I am currently implementing the minimal-cut upgrade in rats.c for 
displaying shorts (there was a discussion about this last December on 
this list).

Best regards,

Tibor