Adam, I’m glad you picked #2. That’s what make the most sense.
Jean-Paul AC9GH On Nov 6, 2014, at 4:00 PM, Adam Wolf <adamw...@feelslikeburning.com> wrote: > There will be an appropriate symlink. > > Adam Wolf > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014, 2:17 PM Bob Gustafson <bob...@rcn.com> wrote: > I would vote for 2 or 3. > > One question is whether ~/Library/Application\ Support/ is visible in the > Finder or would the magic move/copy/link be done by drag and drop icons on > the dmg background? > > Bob G > > > On 11/06/2014 01:09 PM, Adam Wolf 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 <de...@latke.net> wrote: >> >> > On Nov 6, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Bernhard Stegmaier <stegma...@sw-systems.de> >> > 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 : 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
