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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 12 Feb 2017, at 22:18, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 2/12/2017 5:37 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
>> i am stuck on the below as i do not understand whats trying to be
>> achieved doing this
>> 
>> # For phase 1, copy _pcbnew.kiface to the python module. line onward
>> (line 733ish)
>> 
>> until the end of the if, and its broken for me.
> 
> It should just be a copy of the _pcbnew.kiface to the python library
> with the correct python extension for python to a folder where python
> can find it.  I'm not sure what the file extension is or where the
> python library install path is in osx.  I can check with Dick but I'm
> pretty sure by looking at the patch that is what it does.

Did this (I guess it is using pcbnew stuff from machines python installation, not the python form inside pcbnew) ever work on macOS?

That doesn’t really make sense on macOS with application bundles (IMHO).
The install step is just an intermediate step to create the initial bundle on the build machine.
If you install it to some python folder on the build machine, it won’t get anywhere on a users machine when installing (== copying) the bundle (the bundle is not more than a folder, so you don’t really “install” anything).

One thing would probably be to create an own installer/bundle for this python stuff, which puts things in the right places on the destination machine. I don’t know if this is easily possible, because you could have more than one python installed and I don’t know about paths in libs.
Or, put it inside the bundle and let user handle it on his own (by symlinking, whatever…).

Same fun will come up on Linux with AppImage stuff (and the other similar approaches)…


Regards,
Bernhard