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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, and this is exactly why I ask these questions.

I personally don't think that scripting examples needs to be
installed. But of course we can do that.

But I still think we should make the xsl "plugins" not just a plugins
folder. I propose to install the python wizards
share/kicad/plugins/scripting and the xsl stuff as
share/kicad/plugins/xsl. This instead of the lib/kicad/plugins where
the xsl files are located now.

In this way they are located in the same place, but still seperated in
different folder. I am open for input for this.

2015-09-28 19:58 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> I just discovered the python plugins are not installed on any platform
> but apple.  It appears that the cmake install directive for the python
> plugin files got moved inside the conditional apple configure code.  I
> will fix this but it still doesn't solve the path problem.  Using
> ${KICAD_PATH}/scripting/plugins will require the user to set the
> KICAD_PATH environment variable in order for this to work.
>
> What about the scripting examples?  It doesn't look like they are
> getting installed either?
>
> On 9/28/2015 11:54 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> From the kicadplugins.i file tha Ajo linked it is in theese dirs on linux:
>>
>> ${KICAD_PATH}/scripting/plugins
>> ${HOME}/.kicad_plugins
>> ${HOME}/.kicad/scripting/plugins
>>
>> KICAD_PATH is not internally defined in kicad, it seems.
>>
>> In principle it is installed in something called KICAD_DATA  on cmake,
>> which is share/kicad on linux, and then as scripting/plugins in there.
>>
>> But remember we also have a concept of plugins in eeschema with the
>> BOM exporter, which usually uses xlstproc with xsl files.
>>
>> So I am not sure what is the appropiate place.
>>
>> 2015-09-28 17:37 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> There is no $KICAD_PATH in the cmake configuration files.  There is
>>> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX that defaults to the appropriate platform path for
>>> using `make install`.  This can be changed when configuring cmake if
>>> your not happy with the default.  Relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PATH, what
>>> is the sub-directory that the python scripts need to be install in to
>>> ensure the they can be used without any additional user configuration?
>>>
>>> On 9/28/2015 6:36 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo wrote:
>>>> Hmm, that's a good point, I guess we should install them to
>>>>
>>>> $KICAD_PATH/scripting/plugins
>>>>
>>>> as it's the standard place where kicad will try to load them from [1]
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/master/scripting/kicadplugins.i#L85
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick Østergaard wrote:
>>>>> Hi
>>>>>
>>>>> What is the plan for the python footprint wizrards [1]?
>>>>>
>>>>> I was trying to figure out how they were supposed to be installed, as
>>>>> it looks now, it seems that they are not installed by cmake [3]. I see
>>>>> that the eeschema bom pluings (the xsl files [2]) are intalled with
>>>>> cmake, but that [1] is not, although it seems like they sould be
>>>>> installed if we look at [3], but only if APPLE. And it seemt hat if
>>>>> not __MINGW32__ or __WXMAC__ then we use the completely hardcoded path
>>>>> on linux to /usr/local/kicad/bin/scripting/plugins ! [4].
>>>>>
>>>>> Although I can put them in ~/.kicad_plugins and they will work too.
>>>>> But I am not exactly sure where this is defined.
>>>>>
>>>>> So what is the desired way to fix this issue? As is now it makes it
>>>>> difficult to package the footprint wizards, because it is not
>>>>> instlaled with cmake nor is there a dynamic path defined on linux.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Nick Østergaard
>>>>>
>>>>> [1]
>>>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/tree/master/pcbnew/scripting/plugins
>>>>>
>>>>> [2]
>>>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/tree/master/eeschema/plugins
>>>>> [3]
>>>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/edbcf2d0cb5b6cd41f2c8f5da02eea83a87e23f5/pcbnew/CMakeLists.txt#L662
>>>>>
>>>>> [4]
>>>>> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/edbcf2d0cb5b6cd41f2c8f5da02eea83a87e23f5/pcbnew/pcbnew.cpp#L244
>>>>>
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