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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's a good idea but it's coming after we've already tagged v5.  Are we
thinking of a patch on the packaging?  I don't quite follow the proposal
for how this gets implemented.  For debian, we could place a patch in the
build package.  I assume that there is something similar for rpms but I'd
be curious to know how this would be implemented for Mac/Windows.

-Seth

Am Mi., 18. Juli 2018 um 21:08 Uhr schrieb 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
>>
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