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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Carsten,
thank you for the clarification.

cheers
Fabrizio


On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hello Fabrizio,
>
> Am 30.05.2018 um 16:42 schrieb Fabrizio Tappero:
> > ​Hello,
> > I recently discovered the existence of some useful BOM python plugins in
> > this folder:
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/kicad/plugins/
> >
> > Wouldn't be recommendable to have the installer put the plugins folder
> in:
> > /usr/share/kicad/
>
> this depends if the plugin has a binary format or has a platform
> independent format.
>
> platform specific code -> /u/l/$platform/kicad/plugins
>
> platform independent code -> /u/s/kicad/plugins
>
> > In this way people might actually find a use these scripts easily.
> >
> > Additionally, it might be great to have the BOM menu button "Add Plugin"
> to
> > point to /usr/share/kicad/
>
> Well, this wouldn't be LSB conform. Python based plugins which also have
> some other usable functions which could be imported into my scripts need
> to go to a Python specific folder.
> And also binary based plugins need to go to a folder which is respecting
> the rules of the LSB.
>
> --
> Regards
> Carsten Schoenert
>
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