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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would tend to agree. I know that the disk location doesn't really matter,
and it would be a pain to change, but having it as a direct subdirectory of
KiCad/share/ seems to make more intuitive sense to me.

On 25 Feb 2017 01:12, "Simon Wells" <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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