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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nick,

You are probably correct about noob users.  Our release installers
should include everything.  The nightly installers can be built without
the libraries to cut down on build time and download bandwidth.

Wayne

On 2/26/2018 7:09 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> I have only been waiting for the release to be tagged such that I know
> what strategy would be used for the libs. My plan is to make a full
> installer and a lite installer for the nightlies. I am not sure if it
> makes sense to have a seperate installer (without the main programs)
> such that the noob user have to install the main app and then in a
> seperate installer the rest of the stuff.
> 
> 2018-02-26 20:39 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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>
>     > <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     On 2/26/2018 6:39 AM, Simon Richter wrote:
>     >     > Hi,
>     >     >
>     >     > On 25.02.2018 <tel: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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