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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I plan on pushing the preliminary v4 to v5 guide to my personal repo
today for review.  Hopefully, I can get enough comments and feedback by
the end of the weekend to finalize and merge it into the master kicad
documentation repo by Monday at the latest.  How hard would it be to
provide a link to this document in the dmg?  I don't know squat about
macos packaging so I'm not going to be much help other than providing
the documentation and the link to it.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 06/21/2018 11:59 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> I suppose the actual text of what to do maybe something in the V4->V5
> page that's being drafted.  If not, we should draft something up on
> the list here.
> 
> Adam
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:48 PM Adam Wolf
> <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Sure.  I can even have just a message saying "If you are upgrading
>> KiCad, please read the README" with a little arrow to the README file.
>>
>> Next--what do I instruct our users to do?
>>
>> Adam
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:45 PM Seth Hillbrand
>> <seth.hillbrand@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Adam, I've often seen applications use the background image of the DMG to convey important information that they want the user to see during installation.
>>>
>>> -S
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Do., 21. Juni 2018 um 19:52 Uhr schrieb Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> I am pretty concerned about this.  There is no place in the macOS
>>>> package to put instructions that users will read.  (There is a README
>>>> but I do not believe many people open it.)
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way we can detect if the fp-lib-table is out of sync and
>>>> tell a user at run time?
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:54 PM Rene Pöschl <poeschlr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I know we are in feature freeze. It seems a lot of people struggle with
>>>>> the transition from kicad 4 to kicad 5. One of the things that could
>>>>> help a lot would be some way of forcing a reset of the user config
>>>>> directory contents to the default. (cold also help later on if for some
>>>>> reason the config directory got compromised.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Especially for the fp-lib-table. It is really not obvious to a lot of
>>>>> people using the official library that this one would need to be reset
>>>>> after updating from kicad 4 to kicad 5. (The files for the official
>>>>> symbol and 3d libraries are updated. The sym-lib-table is "updated" as
>>>>> it never existed before. Meaning without user intervention the footprint
>>>>> library will be out of sync with all other types of libraries.)
>>>>>
>>>>> I think a message in the installer should be the least that should be
>>>>> done. (But that one will only work where kicad has a specific
>>>>> installation tool.)
>>>>>
>>>>> A message on first run of kicad 5 might be even better (maybe the
>>>>> message stating that the default sym-lib-table has been introduced could
>>>>> hint at the fact that the fp-lib-table might need resetting as well. Or
>>>>> a message with a tick-mark "do not show again".)
>>>>>
>>>>>
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