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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 4, 2013 6:51 PM, "Adam Wolf" <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This is a minor aside.  What's all involved in including a custom cmake
module in a project?  I fixed FindPythonLibs and another Python module for
cmake a few months ago, because right now those two stock modules don't
work on Fedora or Ubuntu--which means building Kicad on those platforms is
trickier than you'd expect.
>
> They said my patches look fine, and they'd be glad to accept them--as
soon as they get a python maintainer for all of Cmake.

"They" are python project devs, or distro folks?  Such a maintainer would
maintain what exactly, what project and what package?  Sorry if I am not
reading well.


>
> Adam Wolf
> Wayne and Layne, LLC
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Brian Sidebotham <
brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 August 2013 23:45, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>>
>>> On 4 August 2013 22:42, Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 4 August 2013 22:19, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any platform detection tests can cause grief, since we do not claim
to be Windows in the
>>>>> python runtime.  We claim to be "gcc compiled" with some other
attribute that talks about
>>>>> OS (cannot remember).  If you were to do a diff across the entire
bracket of a-ming-us
>>>>> revisions,
>>>>>
>>>>> bzr diff -r 1..latest  <regression tests>
>>>>>
>>>>> limited to the regression test directories,
>>>>> you will find one of the patches I applied to test for our platform
specifically.  It will
>>>>> be the one with "gcc" in it.  We cannot report "Windows" as our
platform because mingw and
>>>>> MSVC actually do a couple weird regression tests differently.
>>>>>
>>>>> If PyCrust is assuming a limited set of platforms, it may be coming
up short and running
>>>>> into an unsupported platform code path.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Dick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the great information Dick. I've just done a quick test
directly through Python-a-mingw-us:
>>>>
>>>> Python 2.7.4 (default, Mar 18 2013, 12:04:44) [gcc] on win32
>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> >>> import wx
>>>> >>> app = wx.App(redirect=True)
>>>> >>> top = wx.Frame(None, title="PyCrust Helper",size=(800,300))
>>>> >>> import wx.py.crust
>>>> >>> cframe = wx.py.crust.CrustFrame(parent = top)
>>>> >>> top.Show()
>>>> >>> cframe.Show()
>>>> >>> app.MainLoop()
>>>>
>>>> PyCrust crashes as soon as you focus on it. So this can at least be
debugged without KiCad sitting ontop.
>>>>
>>>> PyCrust has worked previously with PyCrust because I've used it. So
this problem shouldn't be too bad to solve.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again.
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards, Brian.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The STC sample in the wxPython build (From the wxWidgets library, i.e.
the cpp sample) behaves exactly the same, hanging on focus. I need to fix
the wxWidgets-cmake project.
>>>
>>> I'm on the case and a fix should arrive in our inbox shortly! Probably
just got some compiler definitions wrong or something.
>>>
>>> Best Regards, Brian.
>>>
>>
>> Fixed! I'll release updated versions tomorrow (It takes a while to build
all the different versions and upload them to Launchpad!)
>>
>> That means that KiCad build is fully successful as far as I've tested so
far.
>>
>> We just need to sort out the readline module in Python-a-mingw-us.I'd
like to add the FindPythonLibs.cmake modules and what-not to that project
too, and do a debug version along with a source tarball. Then people can
debug their python modules through the python interpreter itself too. That
really helps when you're writing a module in C. I'll include an example
module in the install too.
>>
>> Best Regards, Brian.
>>
>>
>>
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