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On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:

> Milan Prochac (milan AT prochac DOT sk) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> there's a functional file format plug-in for main line as well.
>>
>> Last version lives in branch home/milanp/personal_complete
>
> Are the file format plugin systems in pcb and pcb-rnd compatible?

Nope.

> If not, why not?

My goal with the io_* plugin was not only to allow multiple file formats 
but to make them plugins.

Pcb-rnd has an improved plugin system in place: the user can select any 
plugin to be disabled, linked in or compiled as dynamic load plugin. The 
system is orthogonal enough that you can use it even at corner cases, like 
compile the executable without any file format support (in which case you 
can e.g. draw and export but can't save and load).

>
> I tend to disagree with merging an incompatible feature into pcb.
>
> Please help close the gap. Thanks.

I don't think too much of pcb-rnd would be merged to pcb. I especially 
don't think that big infrastructural changes like the improved plugin 
system (that heavily depends on the build system) would ever hit mainline.

Regards,

Igor2