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[Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Looks good to me

Thanks,
Andrew

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 5:59 AM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> How's this?
>
> Adam
>
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:52 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> That sounds good to me.
>> There is also that MacOS security feature that turns /Applications/...
>> paths into some obfuscated virtual paths (as seen by the app, even though
>> those dirs don't exist) and that may spook an uninformed average user. So I
>> would also add that it's best to stick to the paths that are within user
>> directory ($HOME on linux/mac, %APPDATA% on Win).
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 7:24 PM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm.  Interesting.  I don't know what package ever had
>>> /Applications/kicad/Kicad/Contents/SharedSupport/scripting/plugins missing
>>> a .app in /Applications/kicad.app/, but the Mac package has had a lot of
>>> history.
>>>
>>> What's the next step here... add some words saying "Modern macOS
>>> installs likely have them at XXXXX, but if it doesn't seem like these are
>>> right, try running
>>>
>>> import pcbnewprint pcbnew.PLUGIN_DIRECTORIES_SEARCH
>>>
>>> in the scripting console"?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:03 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Adam,
>>>> Please note that current paths are actually correct for previous
>>>> versions of MacOS. I'm not sure exactly when the change happened but the
>>>> paths you are suggesting are valid for latest versions of MacOS and kicad.
>>>> Maybe it's worth to add a note stating that these paths are correct for
>>>> latest versions of the software.
>>>> Also there is a simple way to get all valid paths from kicad itself, I
>>>> have it described in the wiki for my plugin here
>>>> https://github.com/openscopeproject/InteractiveHtmlBom/wiki/Installation
>>>>
>>>> > Above list may be out of date or inaccurate for your OS
>>>> version/distribution. You can get full list of directories that pcbnew is
>>>> scanning for plugins by running this in scripting console:
>>>>
>>>> import pcbnewprint pcbnew.PLUGIN_DIRECTORIES_SEARCH
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Having that in the docs would be useful too.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 6:35 PM Adam Wolf <
>>>> adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Fixes https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1789960.
>>>>>
>>>>> Adam
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