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I don't disagree. I want to see the blue sky documentation. I just
find this whole thing about Lua/XML to be a giant distraction. The
current file format is extremely readable. It is the source that is
not.

I know people would like to never have to look at the text of say a
footprint file but I have come to accept that it is just a part of
life.



On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 8:08 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>> DJ while those are all really good ideas my impression of the PCB
>> source is that it would take a lot of work to implement.
>
> That's an understatement, and the crux of the problem.
>
>> gschem's source was clear to me, PCB was not.
>
> PCB's source is *ancient*.  Even a simple clean-up pass would be a
> large undertaking.  It's probably one of the first examples of
> object-oriented programming.
>
>> It would be nice to have a draft of what the future PCB file format
>> would look like building off of what we have now instead of
>> reinventing the wheel.
>
> There are things we can do now.  It's still important to have a
> long-term goal in mind.



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