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[Martijn Kuipers <martijn.kuipers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03 Sep 2014, at 22:05, Moses McKnight <moses@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
> 
> I'm not sure now if that is where they should go.  I looked a little through past emails here and apparently things such as libraries, modules, etc are in subdirectories in ~/Library/Application Support/kicad

Just a minor detail, shouldn’t that be ?
~/Library/Application Support/KiCad

OSX uses the name of the application, which is KiCad (with the capitals).

/Martijn

> 
> Another thing I noticed is that the function I found to make it easy to put the config files there was not in wx2.8, so I don't know if we want to use it.  The function is wxStandardPaths::UseAppInfo( wxStandardPaths::AppInfo_None );  and that allows me to use wxStandardPaths::GetUserDataDir() without wx putting the program name at the end of that path.
> 
> See the message I just sent to the list with an updated patch.
> 
> I'll see what I can do with the Cmake files.  I don't know cmake and don't do much shell scripting, so I'm not sure how to add the .config/kicad directory in there right now.
> 
> Thanks,
> Moses
> 
> On 09/03/2014 03:44 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Hey Moses,
>> 
>> If the OSX config files should go in ~/Library/Application Support/kicad
>> would you please update the patch accordingly.  Also, could you create a
>> patch to send to the library developers to update the fp-lib-table
>> install script so it gets installed to ~/.config/kicad?
>> 
>> As soon as the OSX testing is confirmed and the install script patch is
>> ready, I will commit the changes.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Wayne
>> 
>> On 9/3/2014 1:17 PM, Moses McKnight wrote:
>>> Hi Wayne,
>>> 
>>> One person on IRC is compiling with the patch to test on OSX.  Currently
>>> the files on OSX should go in ~/Library/Preferences/kicad, but from what
>>> he said and also from these links, it looks like that might should be
>>> changed to ~/Library/Application Support/kicad.  I did figure out an
>>> easy way to make the change if it is decided that is better.
>>> 
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15677388/default-location-for-configuration-files-macos
>>> 
>>> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/General/Conceptual/MOSXAppProgrammingGuide/AppRuntime/AppRuntime.html
>>> 
>>> 
>>> The install_****_fp-lib-table cmake stuff is in the kicad library
>>> repository, looks like under the template directory.
>>> 
>>> Moses
>>> 
>>> On 09/03/2014 09:02 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> Can someone please test this on OSX to make sure it doesn't cause any
>>>> issues before we commit it.  Also, kicad-install.sh calls `make
>>>> install_github_fp-lib-table` to install the global fp-lib-table.  I
>>>> cannot find the definition of install_github_fp-lib-table in any of the
>>>> kicad CMake files.  Where ever this is defined, it will need to be
>>>> changed to copy the global fp-lib-table to ~/.config/kicad.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> Wayne
>>>> 
>>> 
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