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[David Godfrey <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Surely it would be possible to detect which msys version is available, 
and automatically enable scripting if msys2 is found?


On 03/10/15 02:32, Wayne Stambaugh 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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