Default Project Template KiCad 4/5

[KarlZeilhofer]

Hi,

as I’m on my way to make KiCad 4 and 5 working in parallel, I tried to modify the path to the default project template file kicad.pro

KiCad 4
By default, this is the file /usr/share/kicad/template/kicad.pro
with the default environment variable KICAD_PTEMPLATES=/usr/share/kicad/template/

Now I tried to set the KICAD_PTEMPLATES to a different path, which contains a kicad.pro file, which is explicitly for KiCad 4. But it seems, that the variable only defines, where template projects can be found. KiCad 4 allways looks in that fixed path (/usr/share/kicad/template/kicad.pro) for the default project template, which is not, what I expected.

KiCad 5
With KiCad 5, the situation is the same. As stated in the KiCad blog, the default kicad.pro file must not contain any libraries, when used for KiCad 5: https://kicad.org/post/symbol-lib-table/ (paragraph 3)

Conclusion
We have here another conflict between the versions 4 and 5.

I’ll report a bug…
[EDIT] https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1768463

[KarlZeilhofer]

Workaround
Until this will be fixed: Using template projects, which are in the path of KICAD_PTEMPLATES

[KarlZeilhofer]

as mentioned by @eelik, there seems to be some progress:
https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg35733.html

I’m very happy, that my concerns and bugreports are taken seriously. Thats’s my feeling for every bug I’ve reported regarding KiCad 5. Great work!