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Re: Packaging the python footprint wizards for the release

 

Patch committed in product branch r6241.  FYI, you editor left behind
some white space that I cleaned up.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 10/2/2015 12:25 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as promised, patch for OS X attached…
> 
> Fix scripting paths on OS X. Use 
> * <kicad.app>/Contents/SharedSupport/scripting/plugins
>   and
> * $(KICAD_PATH)/scripting/plugins (for compatibility reasons only, this
> path is added per default in kicadplugin.i for all platforms)
> to load python scripting plugins from.
> 
> I checked all of the existing footprint wizards and apart from the
> “Touch Slider” they seem to work fine - I don’t know if these wizards
> ever have been used on OS X before. The “Touch Slider” seem to do just
> nothing (or, I just don’t know how to use it).
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bernhard
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On 01.10.2015, at 23:26, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> It looks like the OS X builder will be back up and running, with the
>> new docs improvements and translation git repo, tonight.
>>
>> Next is to do some tests with some CMAKE things per Wayne for the slow
>> drawing, and then I'll start tackling the Python stuff.
>>
>> (One advantage is that you will have mostly hammered this out by the
>> time I get to it :) )
>>
>> Adam Wolf
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     I committed your patch in r6236 with the revised plugin path.  Thanks
>>     for the patch.  This should work on both linux and windows.  I'm not
>>     sure if it will work with the kicad-winbuilder or the if the windows
>>     installer will need to be changed.
>>
>>     On 10/1/2015 2:43 PM, Brian Sidebotham wrote:
>>     > Shall I apply the one-liner to get python footprint wizards
>>     working on Linux?
>>     >
>>     > On 30 September 2015 at 23:57, Brian Sidebotham
>>     > <brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:brian.sidebotham@xxxxxxxxx>>
>>     wrote:
>>     >> On 30 September 2015 at 21:19, Wayne Stambaugh
>>     <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>     >>> I just committed a fix so at least the python plugins will get
>>     installed
>>     >>> in share/kicad/scripting which seems to work properly on
>>     msys2/mingw64
>>     >>> builds.  I'll test it on Linux when I get a chance.  I'm going
>>     to pass
>>     >>> on the python scripting example folder unless someone can
>>     confirm that
>>     >>> all of the example python scripts work correctly.
>>     >>
>>     >> It's broken on Linux too, the script path is broken. I've
>>     attached a
>>     >> patch to fix it ( a one liner )
>>     >>
>>     >> There's also a patch which helps when you install locally
>>     rather than
>>     >> globally (like me!) so I can have more than one install at a
>>     time, but
>>     >> it's tied specifically to a python version so is useless. We
>>     can fix
>>     >> all this properly after the stable release. For now the
>>     one-liner fix
>>     >> will work for system-wide installs.
>>     >>
>>     >> Best Regards,
>>     >>
>>     >> Brian.
>>
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