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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, sounds great. I just wanted to make sure this was the case. Thanks.

2016-11-27 16:15 GMT+01:00 jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> Le 27/11/2016 à 14:18, Nick Østergaard a écrit :
>> Hello Jean-Pierre,
>>
>> It has recently come to my attention that some people seemingly have
>> problems running pcbnew on windows. It just segfaults, but now it
>> seems that it could be related to the users having set a PYTHONPATH
>> themselves which does not work with kicad. See [1] and [2].
>>
>> Does the fix [3] just commited in the 4.0 branch address that issue?
>>
>> Regards
>> Nick Østergaard
>>
>> [1] https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-stable-pcbnew-crash-on-windows-10-python-problems/4201/18
>> [2] https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-crashes-every-time-when-opening-pcb-file/1507/35
>> [3] https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=8023c7a79478e2ee0955a6c1383a93a3fb1ca08e
>>
>
> Yes, this is the purpose of this patch.
> On Windows it clears any PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME definition, if python.exe is found in Kicad
> binaries, and forces kicad/bin as first folder to search executables.
>
> Therefore, if an other python install exists, it should not create issues for kicad (theoretically...)
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS