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On 07/09/2014 03:23 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> And what are the chances of this happening in pcb?  Is that a doable
>> change?
> Someone would have to have the drive and time to do it.  I think it's
> a fundamental change to the pcb internals, which means it touches most
> of the code.
>
Seems like this is intertwined with a road-map discussion.  It comes 
back to incremental change versus "boil the ocean."  I don't have a lot 
of visibility into what ideas cross over from incremental to 
infrastructure.  OTOH, maybe its good that I don't have that coloring my 
thought process.

Given a "future footprint" specification perhaps there is a way to pull 
incremental changes out of it that are easy to implement in the current 
engine, and then as the infrastructure comes on line more pieces of it 
can be enabled.  Or, maybe there is "future footprint" and "transition 
footprint" format.