Not a windows expert, and probably a silly question, but why can't Windows use DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH? Because of users might install it anywhere or something?
(Please don't take time away from solving it to write a big long complicated response, I'm just curious.) On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Nick Østergaard <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually thought that the environment variables was always supposed > to override, which is apparently not the case at the moment. > > If this patch means that I can do, for example: rm ~/.config/kicad ; > KISYS3DMOD=/tmp pcbnew > > And then I expect that the KISYS3DMOD is set to /tmp when used in > kicad, saved in the config file and show in the configure paths > dialog. > > 2015-12-04 7:49 GMT+01:00 Mark Roszko <[email protected]>: > > The default paths were using DEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH which is horrible > > because it'll never be right for our Windows builds. A nicer > > alternative is to use the environment variables as the defaults if > > they are set on that initial start. Not really critical, just a > > "nicer" default if its available. Who knows, maybe someone will delete > > the environment variables after the fact. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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