Can't load designs created with latest snapshot version.

[spth]

I use the Debian packages. Debian unstable currently
contains version 20050609-1, chich seems to correspond
to the latest snapshot.

I cannot load designs created with this version. Just
saving and loading any (even an empty one) design gives:

2: ERROR parsing file '/home/philipp/SPTH/CVCart/L3/L3.pcb'
    line: 8
    description: 'syntax error'

I can load layouts saved with older versions of pcb.

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

We added a feature. You'll need a newer version of PCB to
load those files. If you must load older files, try
deleting the DRC line.

We do not guarantee forward compatibility, only backward
compatibility.

[spth (spth)]

I am not trying to load a file created with a new version
into an old version. I am trying to load the file with the
very samer version with which it was created.

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

Well, we still added a feature, and you'll still need a
newer PCB to load them. If you must load those files with
an older PCB, try deleting the DRC line.

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

Having actually LOOKED at the pcb file, I see it's not the
same problem everyone else is having. In this case, your
LOCALE is causing us to print floating point numbers in a
non-LANG_C way, which we can't parse. Not sure what we can
do about that.

[spth (spth)]

I think the problem are the fprintf calls in src/file.c
Just setting the locale to C will proobably not work well
with future
localization of pcb messages. Setting the locale to C,
writing the file
and setting it back to the original one is not thread-safe
(I don't know
if pcb uses threads though).
One solution would be to use the locale-independent
g_ascii_strtod()
from glib.

Philipp

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

FYI I've added c_strtod and c_dtostr functions to work
around the locale issue.

[DJ Delorie (djdelorie)]

I think this one can be closed now - no further complaints in four years.