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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keep in mind that as long as there is a shared user configuration
between versions, there is the potential for issues due to the storage
of environment variables in the user config.  The only way to ensure
there will be no version issues is to ensure each new version has a
separate user config.  Installing versions in separate paths will not be
enough.

On 7/19/2018 12:35 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> It's definitely technically possible for macOS--but as I'm continuing
> to think about it, even if I whipped this patch up and tested it,
> *and* I convinced enough people it worked, just thinking about all the
> places in the docs where the macOS paths would have to change, I'm
> thinking we *have* to wait.
> 
> Please let's get this in before V6...
> 
> Adam
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:25 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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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