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Re: KiCad scripting supported in the release or not

 

I'm hoping our linux packagers are enabling the scripting since that is
the one place we know it works well.  If not, please do.  Windows and
OSX are a lot more work to get Python scripting working but we seem to
have that in pretty good shape.

On 10/2/2015 3:44 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> 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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