Re: [Kicad-developers] running multiple versions of KiCad on macOS

2019-06-12 Thread Andy Peters
> On Jun 12, 2019, at 5:12 PM, Seppe Stas wrote: > > Andy, I don’t think Adam is talking about the library folders, those can > already be easily set using environmental arguments. Oh, apologies, I think he is referring to the stuff which lives in ~/Library/Preferences/kicad, where one finds

Re: [Kicad-developers] running multiple versions of KiCad on macOS

2019-06-12 Thread Adam Wolf
Environment variables are tricky for users to set for graphical apps in macOS, unfortunately. I wonder if we can think through this and find something that is unequivocably better than what we have today without requiring us to invent a bunch of new things. I know I get scared every release that

Re: [Kicad-developers] running multiple versions of KiCad on macOS

2019-06-12 Thread Seppe Stas
Andy, I don’t think Adam is talking about the library folders, those can already be easily set using environmental arguments. On that note though, being able to have those environmental variables be updated depending on the KiCad version would also be a nice to have, since for some reason KiCad

Re: [Kicad-developers] running multiple versions of KiCad on macOS

2019-06-12 Thread Andy Peters
> On Jun 12, 2019, at 2:38 PM, Adam Wolf wrote: > > Seeing Seppe's patch made me think of something I tried to do last > time, but ended up running out of time. > > What do folks think about changing the data directory for macOS to > have the major version, to make it a little easier to run

Re: [Kicad-developers] running multiple versions of KiCad on macOS

2019-06-12 Thread Seth Hillbrand
On 2019-06-12 17:38, Adam Wolf wrote: Seeing Seppe's patch made me think of something I tried to do last time, but ended up running out of time. What do folks think about changing the data directory for macOS to have the major version, to make it a little easier to run KiCad 5 and 6 on the same

[Kicad-developers] running multiple versions of KiCad on macOS

2019-06-12 Thread Adam Wolf
Seeing Seppe's patch made me think of something I tried to do last time, but ended up running out of time. What do folks think about changing the data directory for macOS to have the major version, to make it a little easier to run KiCad 5 and 6 on the same computer? Am I opening a can of worms?