I wouldn’t rely on that. You can set paths on macOS and at least I needed it to do in my setup before Wayne made the path configuration dialog. So, I wouldn’t bet that there are no such macOS installs out there… :)
Regards, Bernhard > On 19. Jul 2018, at 06:07, Adam Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On Jul 16, 2018, at 10:22 AM, Mark Roszko <[email protected] > <mailto:[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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