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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 22:05:42 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Cirilo Bernardo (cirilo_bernardo AT yahoo DOT com)" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] Any news about FOSS EDA coordination?
 Import/export, common file format
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> From: "timofonic timofonic (timofonic AT gmail DOT com)" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
>To: foss-pcb AT ohwr DOT org; geda-user AT delorie DOT com 
>Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 1:10 AM
>Subject: [geda-user] Any news about FOSS EDA coordination? Import/export, common file format
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>Hello.
>About FOSS EDA coordination? Import/export, common file format, etc.
>Open File Format standards are good for the industry. It's a shame IDF failed.
>Regards.
>


Why do you say IDF failed? IDF is not an electronics
design format, it is an ECAD/MCAD intermediate format.
If anything IDF had the facility to pass on a lot of
data which I wouldn't want to pass on to the mechanical
designers.

What do you have in mind when you say common file format?

- Cirilo