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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Yea....thats what I proposed too.
> 
> Every program on Windows that needs side-by-side installs just
> versions both the config and install locations. Thats it.
> 
> EAGLE does it.
> Visual Studio does.
> Altium does it.
> CLion does it.
> All of Jetbrains other product do it.
> Microsoft Word does it
> Adobe does it.
> Python does it.
> MSSQL does it.
> <insert the hundreds of other programs in my start menu>
> 
> No need for crazy launcher args and extreme actions such as doing
> something like RVM does....
> 
> All that needs to be done, is find all instances of wxStandardPaths
> being used for config location.
> Replace it with a standard static function helper. In the helper, it
> appends a version number to the location.
> 
> Thats it. Done. No need to require users to understand command line to
> use a program.
> 
> It works for linux too.
> /home/user/.kicad/
> becomes
> /home/user/.kicad/5.1/

And on the Mac that would be

/Users/andy/Library/Application Support/kicad 

becomes

/Users/andy/Library/Application Support/kicad/5.1

and /Users/andy/Library/Preferences/kicad 

becomes 

/Users/andy/Library/Preferences/kicad/5.1

-a