Re: [Kicad-developers] Consider changing .pro extension in the future

2020-05-07 Thread Jon Evans
You heard it here first: not a tentative plan, a definite plan :) (or at least as definite as these things get) Project format will be changing, and the extension will change to kicad_pro along with it. The extension change will not apply to the existing file format. This change is tied to other

Re: [Kicad-developers] Consider changing .pro extension in the future

2020-05-07 Thread Jon Evans
It's on my TODO list, it will happen as part of a new project format https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2169 -Jon On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:18 PM Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > I'm pretty sure this has been discussed to death but but until a new > project file format is created, the file

Re: [Kicad-developers] Consider changing .pro extension in the future

2020-05-07 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I'm pretty sure this has been discussed to death but but until a new project file format is created, the file extension will remain .pro. It's bad enough that this clashes with other applications but having an internal file format clash just fix something unrelated to KiCad doesn't make much sense

Re: [Kicad-developers] Consider changing .pro extension in the future

2020-05-07 Thread Ian McInerney
There is a tentative plan to change this to a `.kicad_pro` file in v6, but it hasn't been completely thought through yet. See https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2169#note_286814996. -Ian On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 5:05 PM RigoLigo RLC wrote: > Hello everyone, > > The .pro project file

[Kicad-developers] Consider changing .pro extension in the future

2020-05-07 Thread RigoLigo RLC
Hello everyone, The .pro project file extension might be a historical problem, but I really should mention that this extension was used by too many programs, for example, Qt Creator. Now the kicad_sch extension came with the S-expression style schematics format, I'd like to ask would KiCad plan