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[Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On Dec 21, 2014, at 8:46 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I committed the first version of a wizard to manage the footprint
> library table dialog editor.
> It help users to select the right plugin, an existing environment
> variable or an absolute path, and add a list of new entries to the table.
> Note: the wxWidgets webkit/webview library is needed.
> On windows,there is no problem.
> On Linux,  the webkitgtk-devel tool (sudo apt-get install
> libwebkitgtk-dev) must be installed if it is missing (and wxWidgets
> rebuilt after running configure.).
> See:
> http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0/classwx_web_view.html
> 
> However, to avoid use of wxwebview, if it creates issues, you can
> compile kicad with cmake option -DKICAD_USE_WEBKIT=OFF.
> But the github plugin wizard will be not fully available.
> 
> Currently this option is ON.
> OSX testers are welcome.

BZR 5335 built fine on OS X 10.10.1 and the fp-table dialog seemed to work as advertised. I need to do more converting of old legacy libraries to pretty so this will be a good opportunity to further test this dialog.

-a