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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm applying the patch to the library install.

Thanks a bunch for all of that.

Carl


On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Glad we could lower your blood pressure a little. :)
>
> On 9/5/2014 6:18 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > Amazing, excellent work folks.  I was getting a little blood pressure
> > spike with these little droppings all over my home directory...
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> >
> > On Sep 5, 2014 4:59 PM, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     I just committed Moses' configuration file relocation patch in r5114.
> >
> >     On Linux the configuration files are now located in
> $HOME/.config/kicad
> >     per the FreeDesktop.org specification.  To preserve you current
> >     settings, you can move the kicad configuration files for your $HOME
> >     folder to the new location.  You must drop the leading . from the
> file
> >     name.  You must also move the fp-lib-table file.  You will have to
> make
> >     copies of these files if you plan on using any version of kicad
> prior to
> >     r5114.
> >
> >     Sorry windows users but you will have to reconfigure KiCad.  There
> was
> >     no easy way to extract the registry keys into configuration files.
> The
> >     configuration files on Windows will be saved in the same folder as
> >     fp-lib-table which is %APPDATA%\kicad.  You may want to clean the
> kicad
> >     cruft from the registry if your not going to use any versions of
> kicad
> >     prior to r5114.
> >
> >     There should be no change for OSX users.
> >
> >     Can someone please apply the attached patch to the library install in
> >     the github repo so the fp-lib-table file gets installed in the
> correct
> >     path by anyone using the kicad-install.sh script.
> >
> >     Thank you Moses for contributing to KiCad.
> >
> >     Sorry about the inconvenience but this change fixes the $HOME folder
> >     configuration file pollution on Linux and removing the configuration
> >     from the Windows registry which both users and developers have been
> >     pushing for.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >
> >     Wayne
> >
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