It's a good idea but it's coming after we've already tagged v5. Are we thinking of a patch on the packaging? I don't quite follow the proposal for how this gets implemented. For debian, we could place a patch in the build package. I assume that there is something similar for rpms but I'd be curious to know how this would be implemented for Mac/Windows.
-Seth Am Mi., 18. Juli 2018 um 21:08 Uhr schrieb Adam Wolf < [email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Mark Roszko <[email protected]> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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