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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's a pretty good idea. Let's plan on doing the same for the macOS
release installer, and only do the split installer for nightlies.

Adam

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 7:49 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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