Great! 2 it is. (and the docs are going to be inside the executable) Adam Wolf On Nov 6, 2014 1:25 PM, "Bernhard Stegmaier" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I also think #2 is best… > > Downloading a little bit more doesn’t hurt nowadays. > Advanced users with their own library can just ignore the ones in the dmg, > beginners get everything at once (but, of course, have to install > application and libraries separately). > > Documentation should of course go into kicad.app/Contents/… just like > executables. > > > Regards > Bernhard > > On 06.11.2014, at 20:09, Adam Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'll try to clarify the options that I see. > > 1) Store the libraries *inside* the bundle, in kicad.app. Users should > never change these, because if they do, the changes would be lost when you > update KiCad. > 2) Have the libraries be included in the DMG, but users would have to drag > Kicad into Applications and Libraries into ~/LibraryApplication\ > Support/whever/it/is/supposed/to/be, but we would have two symlinks, and a > background image on the DMG to make it obvious what to do. > 3) Have two DMGs, one with just Kicad, one with just Libraries. This > would be almost the same as #2. > > Thoughts, folks? I am personally leaning towards 2. One thing to > download, but nothing stored inside kicad.app except for the KiCad > executables... > > Adam Wolf > Cofounder and Engineer > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Andy Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> > On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Yes, one .dmg is also fine with me. >> > >> > We shouldn’t put anything into the bundle that a user can change (like >> adding his own symbol to a predefined library, etc.). >> > If the changes are stored in files inside the bundle itself then they >> will just get lost when a user tries to update the usual way (delete old >> from /Applications, drag new one into it). >> > >> > That would really be frustrating I guess... >> >> Very frustrating indeed. Why an application would store what is >> essentially user data in an opaque bundle is beyond me (see iPhoto, for >> example) ... >> >> -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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > 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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