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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

So what exactly are we going to do?

We need to fix up the CMake files and the real search paths.  What
should the paths be?


2015-09-30 15:51 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> The contents of the pcbnew/scritping/plugins folder will be installed
> which contains the scripts you are describing.  It currently is not
> installed on windows or linux.  Ironically it is install on osx.  I'm
> not sure how that happened.  The contents of pcbnew/scripting/examples
> will not be installed unless someone verifies that they run without
> issue.  As Miguel suggested, the example scripts may be broken due to
> changes in the board API.  I would rather not install broken examples
> since the plugin scripts can also serve as examples.
>
> On 9/30/2015 9:35 AM, easyw wrote:
>> Hi Wayne,
>> please reconsider to leave the python wizard installed
>> The wizard is giving:
>> BGA, DIP/SIP, QFP, Circular array and BarCode just out of the box.
>>
>> May be they are improvable (exposed pad, thermal vias etc), but at this
>> state they are fully usable (without any crash or prob) and much faster
>> then standard footprint editor.
>> Moreover, if you do not include them you get a wizard button in pcbnew
>> footprint editor for nothing...
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30/09/2015 14.30, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> Thanks for the update.  I'll leave the python examples uninstalled until
>>> we can confirm that they are not broken.  I don't think it's all that
>>> important for the stable release.  Users can always look at the python
>>> plugins to get an idea of how the python scripting works.
>>>
>>> On 9/30/2015 3:59 AM, Miguel Angel Ajo wrote:
>>>> I agree with JP here, QFP and QFN may be separate wizards. If there are
>>>> common parts, feel free to use inheritance from a common base to reuse
>>>> code.
>>>>
>>>> About naming: footprint generators sound better, or whatever, at that
>>>> time I was following an industry leader on naming it..., but I agree
>>>> footprint generator is more clear for the task.
>>>>
>>>> About including our scripting examples, I wouldn't, those are not tested
>>>> with the current codebase, and likely to be broken because of C++
>>>> interface changes.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry for my slow response,
>>>> best regards,
>>>> Miguel Ángel.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> jp charras wrote:
>>>>> Le 30/09/2015 01:25, Wayne Stambaugh a écrit :
>>>>>> JP,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Your name is on the initial commit for qfn_wizard.py.  I don't have
>>>>>> time
>>>>>> to figure out these patches should be included.  Do these patches make
>>>>>> sense?  Let me know so I can make a decision on whether or not to
>>>>>> commit
>>>>>> them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Wayne
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> These patches make sense, I used them to fix bugs in our footprint
>>>>> wizard dialog issues, and issues in some pythons scripts (mainly usage
>>>>> of print command which created python exceptions when stdout was never
>>>>> read, especially on Windows).
>>>>>
>>>>> But do not commit them. Reasons:
>>>>> - I am thinking the wizard to create a QFN should be an other wizard
>>>>> than the QFN wizard.
>>>>> The thermal pad needs many parameters, useless for a QFN without
>>>>> thermal
>>>>> pad.
>>>>> - The wizard to create a QFN with thermal pad needs refinements, before
>>>>> being committed
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll have a look at that later.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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