On 1/9/2015 6:34 AM, Brian Sidebotham wrote: > 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.
I already have it on my todo list. I think I mentioned it in this thread somewhere. I already have the low level plumbing done in my development branch. I just need to create the dialog and the code to tie it all together. > > 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
