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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/7/2015 5:07 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 2015-12-06 23:01 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> On 12/6/2015 3:48 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>> I am very tempted to just apply this to the 4.0.0 windows installer,
>>> just such that the libs will actually work when people install them.
>>>
>>> Should I refrain from this?
>>
>> Please hold off.  I would rather not have the windows 4.0.0 package use
>> different code than the Linux and OSX 4.0.0 packages.  I hope to role
>> out at 4.0.1 release with the GAL crash fix in the next couple of days.
>>  I was trying to get it done today but it just didn't happen.  I can
>> include this patch as well as long as it doesn't break anything.
>>
>>>
>>> I have tested the patch on windows and linux. It works as expected.
>>
>> Did you delete all of your old kicad config files and do a "clean" install?
> 
> I am not exactly sure what a "clean" install has anything to do with
> the default conf. The use case is just to have it set to working paths
> when a user installs KiCad. So it was tested by not having a clean
> conf to see if it kept the paths and then close kicad, remove the
> conf, and start kicad (pcbnew) to verify that the paths were changed.

By clean I meant that no existing kicad conf files exist and none of the
environment variables are set at the system or user level.  You solution
should would work as well assuming the environment variables are not all
ready defined outside of the kicad config.

> 
>>>
>>> 2015-12-04 15:21 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>> Obviously this patch is only going to be useful for the first time kicad
>>>> is run.  Existing installs will change.  I'm fine with applying it once
>>>> it has been tested on OSX and Linux.  I'm at my bandwidth limit so I'm
>>>> going to need some help with the testing.
>>>>
>>>> On 12/4/2015 9:08 AM, Mark Roszko wrote:
>>>>> 1. Users can install anywhere
>>>>> 2. x86 vs x64
>>>>>
>>>>> 32-bit on XP => Program Files
>>>>> 32-bit on 64-bit => Program Files (x86)
>>>>> 64 on 64-bit => Program Files
>>>>> 64 on the rare 64-bit XP => Program Files (x64)
>>>>>
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