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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will test this on OS X.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:31 PM, José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, I wrote a patch to fix the issue of Kicad creating lock/PID
> files for applications and open files in the user's home directory,
> which is unsightly and wrong according to the XDG[1]/Apple[2]
> standards/spec.
>
> To fix it I created a new function in common.cpp which fetches the
> proper path to use using environment variables and a couple fallbacks,
> and edited all calls to wxSingleInstanceChecker's constructor to use
> it. According to wxwidgets's documentation [3] the constructor
> *should* ignore that extra argument on windows since it uses mutexes
> instead of lock files. In Mac OSX I used the standard user-specific
> cache directory, choosing somewhat arbitrarily "org.kicad-pcb.kicad"
> as the app bundle name, feel free to change it if you think something
> else would suit better.
>
> In any case, it does need testing in those platforms. It works as
> expected on Debian Jessie.
>
> [1]:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
> [2]:
> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGuide/MacOSXDirectories/MacOSXDirectories.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010672-CH10-SW1
> [3]:
> http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_single_instance_checker.html#aa69725041ea6c0479f65f6b468a42f1e
>
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