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On 25/01/16 22:10, DJ Delorie wrote:
> The idea was to preserve the intent of the developer, without access
> to any data about what that intent was.
>
> Switching the file format to nanomaters would be "exact" but make it
> very difficult to understand the file format, especially when the
> design is mostly imperial units.
I thought the decision had been taken to switch from imperial to metric
units in the last release?

Or am I mistaken?

I like the idea of nm units going forward, what are the barriers to this
(if any)?