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[José Ignacio <jose.cyborg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Whoops, I didn't realize my pre-approval email went through the list
after all, sorry for littering the mailing list with two slightly
different versions of the same patch. the one in this thread is the
most current.

Cheers,
José

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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