Hi Collin, Glad you like it.
I think what you propose is how I'm already doing it, except for the Documents path vs one in Library, which this thread is already about. Nice response, huh? :) On Jan 12, 2015 11:49 AM, "Collin Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote: > That's a great idea! I had no idea there was a kicad-extras.dmg in the > works. I need to pay more attention. FYI, the 'mac-ness' of doing two > dmgs, one for the app, one for, well, extras, is very good. That's > something I've seen other programs do and it works very well. Really, I > think the more we can separate user modifiable stuff (or anything that is > or has potential to be kept up to date using git) from the .app, the > better. If there is a kicad-extras.dmg, I assume it has a one click > drag-and drop style install as well. That could install to a default > location, but it would be nice if one could, from within the GUI, select a > folder that normally houses the 'kicad-library' stuff, leaving it up to the > user as to it's location. This allows storage on USB drives, a shared > network drive, all sorts of neat stuff. > > Oh, and is there any plans for a good way to merge or easily populate the > fp-lib-table? The Wizard is great, but rather tedious for people who just > want everything. I remember putting a fp-library-table file in kicad's > support folder, if one did not exist in their Preferences folder, would > cause it to be used as their table list, but that seems broken (or maybe I > forgot a CMAKE flag? I am not sure). Basically, what would be ideal in my > opinion, is if a new user could download kicad.dmg, kicad-extras.dmg, drag > stuff to their /Applications folder, drag stuff to ~/Documents or where > ever that has a recent snapshot of the kicad-library git repo and .pretty > repos, and when they open KiCad, the fp-lib-table file should default to > the github fp-lib-table template if the user doesn't have one (or, and this > is important, has one but without any entries) in their preferences > folder. That way, no one is ever left scratching their head as to why they > don't have any parts or libraries. > > -- > "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." - Isaac Asimov > > On Jan 12, 2015, at 12:15 AM, Adam Wolf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think this idea has merit. > > If we are discussing large changes to the OS X paths, can I ask for > another? Let's move packages3d/ outside of modules/, so I can have users > who download kicad-extras drag and drop a modules directory full of checked > out github footprints into their ~/Documents/kicad/ (or whatever...) > directory, without having to include packages3d/ in both the kicad and > kicad-extras dmg. > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > W&L > > >
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