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Marco,
/Library is not visible in my finder.
I have to use a terminal to go there, and I do not have a ~/Library. That's the default on a new Macbook pro. But that might be an acceptable choice if you tell me how to modify the Finder app to see the /Library directory.

My $0.02,
Jean-Paul


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-------- Original message --------
From: Marco Serantoni <marco.serantoni@xxxxxxxxx> 
Date:2014/05/06  12:59 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Adam Wolf <adamwwolf@xxxxxxxxx> 
Cc: kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] KICAD_DATA on OS X 

Adam,
I'm for /Library & ~/Library, first because they are coherent with the enviroment and wxStandardPaths.
We have discussed about that with Wayne not much months ago, we agree from much time about the correctness to use that class without reinvent the wheel, the differences were about ::GetUserConfigDir ::GetUserDataDir and fp_table, now the discussion could be easier to understand with updated documentation.

http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_standard_paths.html#a7c7cf595d94d29147360d031647476b0


Placing things inside a bundle is nice, but is nice only for Support files that are immutable, libraries are not, they have  be changed.

/usr/local in osx is the same than ask an linux user to make a C:/windows directory in its root, moreover the Finder could not navigate those directory easly.


Try to take a look to common/systemdirsappend.cpp, i'vent seen deepier the changes but i don't think that points to /usr/local.


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Marco


On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwwolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi folks,

I have been producing OS X builds for a while now, and I'm working on addressing some feedback before I start setting up the push of DMGs to Miguel's system.

The first main feedback point is KICAD_DATA.  I apologize if this has been discussed before--I promise I searched in the archives for about five minutes before drafting this.

Right now, various things like eeschema are looking at /usr/local/library, which isn't what we want.

Some places users have suggested to me include:
	•	/usr/local/share/kicad/library
	•	/Library/Application Support/Kicad
	•	~/LibraryApplication Support/Kicad
	•	Inside the .app Bundle

Marco and the other Mac folks, I am especially interested in your input.  Thanks!

Adam Wolf
Wayne and Layne, LLC