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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adam,

I merged your patch.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 11/27/2018 8:59 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> How's this?
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:52 PM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 pcbnew
>         print pcbnew.PLUGIN_DIRECTORIES_SEARCH
> 
>         in the scripting console"?
> 
>         Adam
> 
>         On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:03 PM Andrew Lutsenko
>         <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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 Above list may be out of date or inaccurate for your OS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 pcbnew
>             print 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
>             <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>                 Fixes https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1789960.
> 
>                 Adam
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