I have only been waiting for the release to be tagged such that I know what strategy would be used for the libs. My plan is to make a full installer and a lite installer for the nightlies. I am not sure if it makes sense to have a seperate installer (without the main programs) such that the noob user have to install the main app and then in a seperate installer the rest of the stuff.
2018-02-26 20:39 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com>: > We should remove or hide the optional items if they are no longer part > of the installer to prevent confusion. > > On 2/26/2018 12:46 PM, Jon Evans wrote: > > In the case that there is a separate installer for the libraries (which > > I also think makes sense), maybe those line items should be removed from > > the main installer instead of just disabled (if that is easy) to reduce > > confusion? > > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 12:42 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com > > <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 2/26/2018 6:39 AM, Simon Richter wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On 25.02.2018 22 <tel:25.02.2018%2022>:52, Andrey Kuznetsov wrote: > > > > > >> The unchecked components in the image below cannot be checked. > > > > > > Yes, these are no longer in the nightly installer, because they are > > > 600MB compressed, and most nightly users maintain their libraries > > > themselves. > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > > Simon, > > > > Are there any plans to package the libraries as a separate installer? > > I'm sure there are some windows users are going to want to be able to > > install libraries directly rather than deal with git repos. First > time > > users are going to be bewildered by an EDA tool that appears to > offer no > > symbol, footprint and/or 3D model libraries. > > > > Wayne > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > > <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > <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 >
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