On Mac, we have the advantage of users not setting environment variables. This makes me think this *could* potentially be feasible for 5.0, for MacOS.
However, I do not know if we would want this feature on one platform and not the others. Thoughts? On Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 12:40 PM Andy Peters <de...@latke.net> wrote: > On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Yea....thats what I proposed too. > > > > Every program on Windows that needs side-by-side installs just > > versions both the config and install locations. Thats it. > > > > EAGLE does it. > > Visual Studio does. > > Altium does it. > > CLion does it. > > All of Jetbrains other product do it. > > Microsoft Word does it > > Adobe does it. > > Python does it. > > MSSQL does it. > > <insert the hundreds of other programs in my start menu> > > > > No need for crazy launcher args and extreme actions such as doing > > something like RVM does.... > > > > All that needs to be done, is find all instances of wxStandardPaths > > being used for config location. > > Replace it with a standard static function helper. In the helper, it > > appends a version number to the location. > > > > Thats it. Done. No need to require users to understand command line to > > use a program. > > > > It works for linux too. > > /home/user/.kicad/ > > becomes > > /home/user/.kicad/5.1/ > > And on the Mac that would be > > /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/kicad > > becomes > > /Users/andy/Library/Application Support/kicad/5.1 > > and /Users/andy/Library/Preferences/kicad > > becomes > > /Users/andy/Library/Preferences/kicad/5.1 > > -a >
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