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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

wafeliron wrote:
> For example its hard to
> find the hardcoded paths in the source and this is a real LACK if i
> install on linux and dont want to but it in the root directory. I
> would like to work on it but its not well commented and structured
> into files about reading the .KiCad .pcbnew files ...


I agree that the linux install could be improved. I would like the 
installed data tree to be separate from the code tree, optionally.


I would like to be able to put the code in /opt/kicad or 
/home/dick/kicad and cannot do that now. And I would like to put the 
data tree in /home/dick/kicaddata for example.


CMake would need to spit out some C++ code containing the selected paths 
and then that would be used instead of the hard coded paths in gestfiche.cpp


There may be ways, but this seems workable to me.


Dick