No, if you need that, make it a complie time option that defaults to not enabled, so current behavior is retained by default.
I truly hope this is clear. On May 1, 2013 12:16 PM, "Lorenzo Marcantonio" <l.marcanto...@logossrl.com> wrote: > I was testing stuff and well... in the kicad_brd file the sheet date is > not saved. I found this pearl in TITLE_BLOCK::Format: > > /* version control users were complaining, see mailing list. > if( !m_date.IsEmpty() ) > aFormatter->Print( aNestLevel+1, "(date %s)\n", > aFormatter->Quotew( m_date ).c_str() ); > */ > > What is a field useful for if it's not saved? It always come up empty, in > this > way. > > In many companies the date on a drawing is actually more important than the > drawing version number (in fact ISO/EN 7200:2004 requires the date of > issue, > which is legally binding for a number of things). Other dates (approval, > modifications and so on) are optional but the "document date" is mandatory. > > I think the best solution would be putting the date as an editable field > (with > the title, company and so on): this would eliminate the localization issue > and > in the mean time allow a 'significant' date to be set (not necessarily > that's > the last modified date, for a number of reasons). Also the vcs users > wouldn't > have to complain (I don't see the problem if a date changes in a versioned > file... maybe they don't like it). > > > -- > Lorenzo Marcantonio > Logos Srl > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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