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[dileep kushwaha <dilzverykool@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am on Ubuntu 12.04 now(was facing difficulty finding packages for bazaar).
I had installed KiCAD Adam's libraries before and now updated to Jean-Samuel's
PPA.
I have installed wxPython and tried a few examples on it.

What should i do next to make a new wxPython based project manager?





On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Dileep,
>
> In answer to your question, what is the difference? :
>
> 1) On linux, both pros and cons:
>
> a) you can use the standard linux package manager for the entire wxPython
> stack.
>
> b) you will be at a wxPython version slightly behind what you'd be on for
> windows.
>
> c) it will look better on your resume, anything linux looks good on a
> resume right now.
>
> d) you could use Jean-Samuel's PPA for the KiCad binaries, which currently
> don't include
> wxPython, but would constitute the balance of the software.  Or you could
> run
> <kicad_src>/scripts/kicad_install.sh which brings in libraries, the kicad
> executables, and
> installs the wxPython stack as a (heretofore unnecessary) dependency.
>
>
>
> 2) On windows, both pros and cons:
>
> a) you have to make kicad-winbuilder succeed to get the proper wxPython
> stack.  If it does
> not succeed, you will have to find help.
>
> b) you may be more familiar with Windows.
>
> c) because the wxPython version will be newer than the least common
> denominator of
> wxWidgets and wxPython (on linux), you may inadvertently become dependent
> on a wxPython
> feature not in wxPython in linux's (older) standard package.
>
>
>
> Either way can work.
>
> I am hoping that others will be generous with their time, and help you.
>  But again, you
> have to keep the conversation on the mailing list.  Your last email was to
> me personally.
>
>
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> On 03/12/2014 11:10 PM, dileep kushwaha wrote:
> > i can use ubuntu as well. what  is the difference if i use linux for
> development of the
> > project?
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:23 AM, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 03/12/2014 02:16 PM, dileep kushwaha wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >      i have been asked to make top level wxPython based project
> windows
> >     > i have installed Windows 7, KiCAD in C:\Program Files (x86)
> >     > i have installed Python 33 and 27
> >
> >
> >     Remember I said to use Brian's wxPython stack, if on Windows.  This
> will be:
> >
> >     a) wxPython 3.x compiled with MINGW.
> >     b) python 2.7.4 compiled with MINGW.
> >
> >
> >     I cannot imaginge any other way of getting this wxPython stack other
> than running his
> >     kicad-winbuilder script.  "kicad-winbuilder" is another launchpad
> project.  It downloads
> >     and installs the entire deal, mostly from source, partially from
> pre-built binaries.
> >
> >     It would be nice to have had some guidance from Brian on this, but I
> think he's building a
> >     house.  (Too bad you weren't on linux for the development phase,
> think that would have
> >     been easier, but that's me talking because I am no longer
> comfortable on Windows.)
> >
> >     We do not use the MSVC compiled python, at all in the KiCad project.
> >     This is the reason for Brian's stack, and why I say "compiled with
> MINGW" above.
> >
> >
> >
> >     > i have installed bazaar (installed python 27 coz of it)
> >     >
> >     > I'm in learning phase of Python
> >     > please guide me futher
> >     > --
> >     > Dileep
> >     >
> >     >
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Dileep Kumar
M.Tech(VLSI Design)
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