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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know there are a variety of applications that come with Python
extensions--I think finding the docs on how we're supposed to do it will
probably solve this problem.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Is there any way to use the bundle to check for a valid python
> installation and download and install it if it's not?  Why is it the
> open source distros can pull this off (apt, yum, pacman, etc.) but the
> wealthiest companies on the planet can't seem to get this right?
>
> On 10/2/2015 3:06 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> > For me, on OS X the default build settings do not work correctly - at
> least when just used out of the box.
> > I didn’t investigate further, but I think this is due to multiple python
> versions being installed in parallel natively by OS X and packet managers
> like MacPorts (in my case).
> > For example, with default settings CMake bails out complaining about not
> finding python-2.6 packages although default interpreter is python-2.7 (and
> wxPython was built with the 2.7)… I don’t know where the 2.6 comes from.
> >
> > This can be fixed by using suitable DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE and
> DPYTHON_SITE_PACKAGE_PATH settings, but (to be honest) until now I don’t
> know if this gets things done right just because it compiles and seems to
> run my machine (although on console there is a warning about not matching
> python versions).
> > Especially, when the generated package will be run on a different
> machine with probably a completely different python version (the python
> used to compile is not contained in the application bundle, but only
> libs/modules of wxPython).
> >
> > However, this may be only because of my setup and is not representative.
> >
> > The strategy for python and the application bundle needs to be discussed
> I guess… if the bundle should be 100% self contained, then I almost guess
> that the python version used to build the bundle would also have to be
> included in there.
> > Unfortunately, I am not so familiar with python right now to be able to
> judge that in detail.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bernhard
> >
> >> On 02 Oct 2015, at 20:32, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> This cannot be done because of the old msys1/mingw32 builds which
> >> require Brian's kicad-winbuilder in order to build all of the
> >> dependencies correctly.  Build python and wxpython on msys1/mingw32 is a
> >> major hassle which has been eliminated with the new msys2/mingw32/64.
> >> For the stable release, I would prefer that packagers enable scripting
> >> on a case by case basis.  We certainly can discuss turning it on by
> >> default after the stable release and dumping support for the old
> >> msys1/mingw32 platform.
> >>
> >> On 10/2/2015 2:24 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> >>> Hello
> >>>
> >>> Since we have been discussing the python scripting stuff recently, I
> >>> would like to hear if it is supposed to be officially supported or
> >>> not.
> >>>
> >>> The thing is that it is by default OFF in the build scripts. This is
> >>> choice likely to affect many linux distributions build configuraiton.
> >>>
> >>> I would actually suggest that we enable it by default. Any comments?
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> Nick
> >>>
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