I am pretty concerned about this. There is no place in the macOS package to put instructions that users will read. (There is a README but I do not believe many people open it.)
Is there any way we can detect if the fp-lib-table is out of sync and tell a user at run time? Adam On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 2:54 PM Rene Pöschl <poesc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > I know we are in feature freeze. It seems a lot of people struggle with > the transition from kicad 4 to kicad 5. One of the things that could > help a lot would be some way of forcing a reset of the user config > directory contents to the default. (cold also help later on if for some > reason the config directory got compromised.) > > Especially for the fp-lib-table. It is really not obvious to a lot of > people using the official library that this one would need to be reset > after updating from kicad 4 to kicad 5. (The files for the official > symbol and 3d libraries are updated. The sym-lib-table is "updated" as > it never existed before. Meaning without user intervention the footprint > library will be out of sync with all other types of libraries.) > > I think a message in the installer should be the least that should be > done. (But that one will only work where kicad has a specific > installation tool.) > > A message on first run of kicad 5 might be even better (maybe the > message stating that the default sym-lib-table has been introduced could > hint at the fact that the fp-lib-table might need resetting as well. Or > a message with a tick-mark "do not show again".) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
