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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mario,

That's not going to happen.  I specifically designed the environment
variable behavior for development purposes.  That's why the environment
variables defined externally to kicad take precedence.  This allows me
to keep my test libraries separate from my normal working libraries.
This allows me to do:

export KISYSMOD=/path/to/test/footprint/libraries
pcbnew

which is really useful for debugging and testing.  Entries in the
environment variable configuration table in kicad are highlighted in
grey to inform the user that a given variable was defined externally.
We even have a help dialog that explains this which if I am not mistaken
is the *only* help button provided by any dialog in kicad.  On clean
installs this should not be an issue because it's highly unlikely that
users will have any of environment variable defined that are used by kicad.

Wayne

On 4/20/2016 4:04 AM, Mário Luzeiro wrote:
> Hi Cirilo,
> 
> Thinking as a regular user perspective, I vote for "WYSIWYG", i.e: the one defined in the GUI.
> Users will get puzzled if something that they don't see is change the variable path.
> 
> Mario
> ________________________________________
> From: Kicad-developers [kicad-developers-bounces+mrluzeiro=ua.pt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on behalf of Cirilo Bernardo [cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 April 2016 01:19
> To: KiCad Developers
> Subject: [Kicad-developers] 3D filename resolution
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
>  I'm cleaning up the new 3D filename resolution code, removing some
> redundant code and fixing corner-case bugs which break with legacy
> behavior. I'd just like some input on one item: if a ENV_VAR path has
> been defined via "Preferences->Configure Paths" and that ENV_VAR
> already exists on the system, which one has preference? For most
> UNIX applications the behavior is to use the ENV_VAR defined within
> the shell rather than the locally defined values.
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> 
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