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On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, John Griessen wrote:

> On 10/05/2015 10:34 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>> Again, speaking as an user: it did improve a lot of things for me. After 
>> this summer I do have more than 5 features that I was
>> missing for years. Now they are there and I use them.
>
> Hi Igor2,
>
> What is it that made you say it is unlikely your pcb-rnd code will get back 
> into the main pcb?

For majority of the features: I think nobody will spend the time to do the 
merge.

A few features potentially won't get merged because they are not aligned 
with the goals of the mainline.

>
> Do you think your fork uses some changes to the code that are a total stop to 
> the rest of us?

So far, I don't think so. The file format is almost 100% compatible and I 
have good documentation on the few extra features that mainline pcb 
doesn't understand in a .pcb save.

For some users the lack of opengl support in pcb-rnd is a showstopper, 
tho.

> I don't see pcb in its present state as much to hang onto before a rewrite. 
> It might turn out that
> having pcb in a working state is good as a test vehicle for proving that a 
> rewrite like SS's Peted
> is doing all the myriad details needed to still complete a pc board.  And then 
> once the testing is
> proved, stop adding to pcb and add to peted instead.  All the backward 
> compatibility needed can be
> handled by translators if the old PCB still works for old designs.

I thought peted was a gschem alternative, doing schematics, not PCBs, but 
I might be wrong.

Regards,

Igor2