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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have previously sent a patch to adam for testing that bundled
python. but it was a bit hackish as since python is a system lib
bundleutilies doesn't copy it.

On 21 February 2017 at 21:28, Bernhard Stegmaier
<stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 21 Feb 2017, at 00:31, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2/20/2017 6:27 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>
> 2017-02-20 23:48 GMT+01:00 Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> How is this done on Windows?
> You also don’t have a global filesystem with one Python there where you just
> copy it into the right place… where does the Windows installer put those
> files and how do you use them from some installed Python? Are there issues
> with library paths of the library dependencies that come with KiCAD when
> used from an external Python?
>
>
> I am not aware of any issues with it on windows, but I don't really use
> windows.
>
> People have requested to include pip with the windows install, and
> that is done now, so I assume that at least something works.
>
> I am not sure if the user uses the shell inside pcbnew or calls the
> python bundled with the installer. The file system layout is basically
> as on linux, just inside the install destination folder.
>
>
> Would something like this work on osx rather than trying to fit into an
> existing python install?  It might prove to be more reliable.  At least
> you would always have a known python build.
>
>
> Yes, that’s probably the only way to do it in a safe way for the bundle
> (and, as Adam said how Apple requires it).
> Currently only wxPython packages and the pcbnew .so are copied into the
> bundle.
> There is no (matching) python installation contained/copied.
>
> This seems to be sufficient to at least run the python console from inside
> pcbnew with some external python installation - if the python version used
> to build the bundle and the one on the target system are compatible.
> However, the last time I tried it the python console was really unusable for
> me, because you couldn’t even type some keys (menu hotkeys always trigger
> the menu action).
> Don’t know if that has been fixed meanwhile.
>
> So, I think this whole python stuff needs a big overhaul on macOS for both
> types of scripting.
> I will work on it when I have some spare time.
> If someone else is going to work on that please drop me a note, so that we
> don’t do it twice…
>
>
> Regards,
> Bernhard
>
>
>
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