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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mac, we have the advantage of users not setting environment variables.
This makes me think this *could* potentially be feasible for 5.0, for MacOS.

However, I do not know if we would want this feature on one platform and
not the others. Thoughts?

On Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 12:40 PM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>