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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

why should packages be a subfolder of modules, it seems that they
don't really belong in there and should be directly in the share/kicad
folder

On 25 February 2017 at 02:00, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah, let me clarify--by "wouldn't be a problem" for OS X, I meant "if
> you did it without saying where it's going and when it's changing", it
> would break the OS X package, but the change would only take a minute
> or two, and would be quickly testable.
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 6:57 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2/24/2017 3:45 AM, Oliver Walters wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> Recently I raised this issue:
>>>
>>> https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg27922.html
>>>
>>> There were some good responses, thanks for the input.
>>>
>>> First task is going to be moving the 3D models, as this will be
>>> significantly easier.
>>>
>>> e.g. something like GitHub.com/KiCad/packages3D
>>>
>>> To this end, I'd like some further information from those in the know:
>>>
>>> A) is there any impediment to having the KISYS3DMOD envvar point to
>>> somewhere different? e.g. ./KiCad/share/packages3D/
>>
>> I believe you mean share/kicad/modules/packages3d.  Why would change the
>> install path?  Irregardless of what repo the 3D models are in, they
>> should always get installed in this location.  Where else would be
>> appropriate to install them?  Changing this path would most likely break
>> everyone's 3D viewing experience.
>>
>>> B) To the package managers, how much effort to package 3D models from a
>>> separate repo?
>>
>> I'll leave this to our package devs.
>>
>>> C) to the docs maintainers, would there be much to change if we
>>> redirected the 3D repo?
>>> D) Generally, what other considerations would be required?
>>>
>>> Essentially, if I made this change right now without telling anyone,
>>> what would I break?
>>
>> I'm sure all of the package builders.  You would need to coordinate this
>> change with the package devs.
>>
>>>
>>> As a side note there have been some great recent contributions to the 3D
>>> data, with a fair bit of momentum over at the forums.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Oliver
>>>
>>>
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