On 8 January 2015 at 13:44, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Fully defined paths can be used in the fp-lib-table if that is your > preference. Environment variable substitution is optional. You are > free to use any environment variable you want. KISYSMOD is merely the > variable name used for the default footprint library path. I use > KILCLMOD to point to the path of my custom footprint libraries. I set > these paths to the same disk partition and and path in both windows and > linux so I'm always using the same footprint libraries when I'm > developing on either platform.
I think it's clear that users of a GUI, and environment variables do not mix well. Personally I like them as they offer me a lot of flexibility and I can make scripts to set-up environments that are useful to me, but I'm a developer and user. I think the best enhancement we could do here is to have an editor for expandable variables in kicad. That is, rather than KISYSMOD having to be an environment variable (which most users appear to think of as a bad disease!) it could instead be a variable set in the KiCad settings. The variable in the KiCad settings with the same name taking precedence, or vice-versa. It's a simple key-value pair editor that means variables can be defined in KiCad options through the GUI. This achieves the same thing as environment variables without the stigma associated with them and offers the interface for editing the values of those variables in the GUI that they're associated with. Add this to my to-do list if you think it's a reasonable idea. It shouldn't take too long to do. These variables would be saved to the kicad config. Of course, we could also complicate things further in the future and have per-project overrides for the variables too if necessary. I think something has to be done before the stable release so we're not swamped with support questions about this. Best Regards, Brian. _______________________________________________ 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
