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[Jean-Paul Louis <louijp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,

I’m glad you picked #2. That’s what make the most sense.

Jean-Paul
AC9GH

On Nov 6, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There will be an appropriate symlink.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014, 2:17 PM Bob Gustafson <bobgus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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> 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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