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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I think this idea has merit.
>
> If we are discussing large changes to the OS X paths, can I ask for
> another?  Let's move packages3d/ outside of modules/, so I can have users
> who download kicad-extras drag and drop a modules directory full of checked
> out github footprints into their ~/Documents/kicad/ (or whatever...)
> directory, without having to include packages3d/ in both the kicad and
> kicad-extras dmg.
>
> Adam Wolf
> Cofounder and Engineer
> W&L
>
[snip]

I proposed that on the library-committer's list many months ago and received
nothing but disapproval. From my point of view the 'packages3d' simply does
not belong there even though footprint files may refer to the 3D files but
I was
not able to convince anyone of that and I didn't care to argue about it.

- Cirilo