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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

We should remove or hide the optional items if they are no longer part
of the installer to prevent confusion.

On 2/26/2018 12:46 PM, Jon Evans wrote:
> In the case that there is a separate installer for the libraries (which
> I also think makes sense), maybe those line items should be removed from
> the main installer instead of just disabled (if that is easy) to reduce
> confusion?
> 
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/26/2018 6:39 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > On 25.02.2018 22 <tel:25.02.2018%2022>:52, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote:
>     >
>     >> The unchecked components in the image below cannot be checked.
>     >
>     > Yes, these are no longer in the nightly installer, because they are
>     > 600MB compressed, and most nightly users maintain their libraries
>     > themselves.
>     >
>     >    Simon
>     >
> 
>     Simon,
> 
>     Are there any plans to package the libraries as a separate installer?
>     I'm sure there are some windows users are going to want to be able to
>     install libraries directly rather than deal with git repos.  First time
>     users are going to be bewildered by an EDA tool that appears to offer no
>     symbol, footprint and/or 3D model libraries.
> 
>     Wayne
> 
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