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[Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx>]

I would vote for 2 or 3.

One question is whether ~/Library/Application\ Support/ is visible in
the Finder or would the magic move/copy/link be done by drag and drop
icons on the dmg background?

Bob G

On 11/06/2014 01:09 PM, Adam Wolf 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
> <mailto:devel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>
>     > On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier
>     <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto: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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