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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I vote for accepting XDG_CONFIG_HOME on all platforms for consistency.
After all this is an advanced configuration feature and should not be
touched by the normal user.

I don't know why the patch was made so complex initially.

2018-05-07 15:54 GMT+02:00 Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> I do not think it will cause an issue on macOS.
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 8:50 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > I am in the process of fixing a minor bug in the code that fetches the
> > KiCad user configuration path.  We currently only check for the
> > XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on non-windows and non-macos
> > platforms.  Is there any reason not to just go ahead and check for
> > XDG_CONFIG_HOME on all platforms?  I know in the past someone requested
> > that we allow it on windows to create a portable windows version of
> > KiCad.  Is there anything on macos where using this could trip us up?
> > If not, it will eliminate an ugly #if/#endif section in this code.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Wayne
> >
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