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Re: KiCad scripting supported in the release or not

 

Ok, I am ok with that, but does that mean that we should motivate
packagers to enable it in the release notes when that time comes?

2015-10-02 20:32 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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