It's definitely technically possible for macOS--but as I'm continuing to think about it, even if I whipped this patch up and tested it, *and* I convinced enough people it worked, just thinking about all the places in the docs where the macOS paths would have to change, I'm thinking we *have* to wait.
Please let's get this in before V6... Adam On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:25 PM Seth Hillbrand <s...@hillbrand.org> wrote: > > 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 > <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com>: >> >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
