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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

2015-10-03 5:12 GMT+02:00 David Godfrey <info@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Surely it would be possible to detect which msys version is available, and
> automatically enable scripting if msys2 is found?

Nah, either way, it should be up to they guy building in the
environment. Making theese kind of "intelligent" choices is a bad
idea. We don't really gain anything for that intelligence. IMHO.

> 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