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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Great!  2 it is. (and the docs are going to be inside the executable)

Adam Wolf
On Nov 6, 2014 1:25 PM, "Bernhard Stegmaier" <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I also think #2 is best…
>
> Downloading a little bit more doesn’t hurt nowadays.
> Advanced users with their own library can just ignore the ones in the dmg,
> beginners get everything at once (but, of course, have to install
> application and libraries separately).
>
> Documentation should of course go into kicad.app/Contents/… just like
> executables.
>
>
> Regards
> Bernhard
>
> On 06.11.2014, at 20:09, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'll try to clarify the options that I see.
>
> 1) Store the libraries *inside* the bundle, in kicad.app.  Users should
> never change these, because if they do, the changes would be lost when you
> update KiCad.
> 2) Have the libraries be included in the DMG, but users would have to drag
> Kicad into Applications and Libraries into ~/LibraryApplication\
> Support/whever/it/is/supposed/to/be, but we would have two symlinks, and a
> background image on the DMG to make it obvious what to do.
> 3) Have two DMGs, one with just Kicad, one with just Libraries.  This
> would be almost the same as #2.
>
> Thoughts, folks?  I am personally leaning towards 2.  One thing to
> download, but nothing stored inside kicad.app except for the KiCad
> executables...
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <
>> stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Yes, one .dmg is also fine with me.
>> >
>> > We shouldn’t put anything into the bundle that a user can change (like
>> adding his own symbol to a predefined library, etc.).
>> > If the changes are stored in files inside the bundle itself then they
>> will just get lost when a user tries to update the usual way (delete old
>> from /Applications, drag new one into it).
>> >
>> > That would really be frustrating I guess...
>>
>> Very frustrating indeed. Why an application would store what is
>> essentially user data in an opaque bundle is beyond me (see iPhoto, for
>> example) ...
>>
>> -a
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