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[Mike Wodarczyk <wodarczykmike@xxxxxxxxx>]

My first attempt was really newbie style like. I didn't thought about if 
it's not set because I wanted to use it myself only. So it was really 
stupid to push a patch to the mailing list break everyone else's config. 
But now I know the whole conept of how to do mailing list and stuff. In 
the next patch I will do things right :)

On 26.10.2016 22:54, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
> 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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