Re: [Kicad-developers] Environment variable conundrum.

2015-03-28 Thread José Ignacio
#1 is the sanest option, it would be nice if there was an indication in the editing dialog that there's a global override when you view/edit them. Something like coloring them red and putting a warning message in the bottom of the dialog like Settings marked in red are currently overridden by

Re: [Kicad-developers] Environment variable conundrum.

2015-03-24 Thread jp charras
Le 23/03/2015 22:44, Garth Corral a écrit : It seems like option #1 is the saner option. If I’m understanding the change, once the variables are edited they become configuration variables. Typical precedence for configuration is usually something like, command line - environment - local

Re: [Kicad-developers] Environment variable conundrum.

2015-03-23 Thread Garth Corral
It seems like option #1 is the saner option. If I’m understanding the change, once the variables are edited they become configuration variables. Typical precedence for configuration is usually something like, command line - environment - local config files - global config files, from highest

Re: [Kicad-developers] Environment variable conundrum.

2015-03-23 Thread Adam Wolf
#1 works slightly better for normal users for OS X, if I'm understanding you correctly. Adam Wolf Cofounder and Engineer WL On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh stambau...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting close to finishing up the environment variable editing dialog and I'm struggling

[Kicad-developers] Environment variable conundrum.

2015-03-23 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
I'm getting close to finishing up the environment variable editing dialog and I'm struggling with the best option to set variables that have already been define outside the currently running process. Here are the options that I see: 1) Set all environment variables to the values defined in the

Re: [Kicad-developers] Environment variable conundrum.

2015-03-23 Thread Wayne Stambaugh
It should work better for users on all platforms except if they have already set the environment variables externally (as we ask them to do before I added the default settings or they used one of the kicad source build and install scripts) and they forget to remove them before using the new