Actually I just noticed I had a old kicad vs new kicad conflict on this machine. So my bad on that.
But the nicer error message point still a concern as I've seen other users asking about it recently. I am just not sure the best way to word the message/dictate. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/3/2015 10:47 AM, Mark Roszko wrote: >> So it turns out all the demo files in KiCad are also affected by the >> translated layer name mess. > > Huh? I just checked. All of the kicad demo boards open just fine for me. > Remember, copper layers can be translated because they have fixed > ordinal numbers. Only non-copper layers cause the translation problems. > >> >> They all more or less have the french layer names. So none of them >> load as of bzr 6292 in pcbnew. >> >> >> >> So ignoring that issue for a moment, is there any reason why we cannot >> add a more friendly error message? Like >> >> "Layer name is unknown to KiCad, please see XXX in documentation" or >> something? Not sue what exactly but would help as I see it being a big >> issue with people upgrading. > > I'm not opposed to this but I would have to verify that this could > actually be done. It depends how the parser exception is raised. > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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 -- Mark _______________________________________________ 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
