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[Seppe Stas <seppestas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andy, I don’t think Adam is talking about the library folders, those can
already be easily set using environmental arguments.

On that note though, being able to have those environmental variables be
updated depending on the KiCad version would also be a nice to have, since
for some reason KiCad does not seem to pick up on env vars set by launchctl
on MacOS, making easy switching only available when launching KiCAD from
the command line (which also seems to come with a bunch of bugs seemingly
related to OpenGL).

Right now I have some custom scripts that set up the correct env vars and
symlinks the library table files, it works okish.

I also noted KiCad 4 currently complains on launh because it doesn’t
understand some settings set by KiCAD 5. Everything still works fine though.

Seppe

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 00:20, Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 12, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > Seeing Seppe's patch made me think of something I tried to do last
> > time, but ended up running out of time.
> >
> > What do folks think about changing the data directory for macOS to
> > have the major version, to make it a little easier to run KiCad 5 and
> > 6 on the same computer?  Am I opening a can of worms?
>
> “data directory” as in where the libraries etc are stored?
>
> Currently in ~/Library/Application Support/kicad or /Library/Application
> Support/kicad ??
>
> Possibly changed to ~/Library/Application Support/kicad 5/ and
> ~/Library/Application Support/kicad 6/ for example?
>
> I don’t have a problem with it, but the question is how to manage it.
> Assume that everyone who already has Kicad installed is using the “default”
> location. When the user upgrades to a new major version, perhaps on first
> run it should ask about the library locations.
>
> But there’s a complication … do those locations exist?
>
> As part of that first run, should the new version offer to upgrade
> existing libraries and store them in the new location?
>
> (And what does that do to users who keep libraries in source-code control
> and the libraries on the computers live in working copies?)
>
> I mean, I agree that if the intent is to be able to run Kicad 5 and Kicad
> 6 on the same machine and those versions have incompatible libraries then
> yes, we need to be able to tell those two installs where their libraries
> live.
>
> Of course, if Kicad 6 can use Kicad 5’s libraries as is, then there is no
> need for the distinction.
>
> Yes, can of worms indeed.
>
> -a
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