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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/26/2016 12:16 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> As discussed on IRC, this breaks the config path on Windows without the
> envrionment variable set, so nobody should merge this.

I wasn't planning on committing this since I'm not sure of the intent.

> 
> I'd really like to hear from somebody with real Windows development
> experience on the correct way to go about what you're doing. It might
> not be clear to people here - IIRC the point is to allow building KiCad
> as a portable application, and not store its configuration data in
> wxStandardPaths::Get().GetUserConfigDir() in that case. What's the
> correct way?

I'm not opposed to using an environment variable to override the user
configuration path but I'm not sure this is how other portable apps
handle user configuration.

> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 04:06:45PM +0200, Mike Wodarczyk wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is my patch to use XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on Windows.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Mike (mwayne)
>>
> 
> 
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