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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I never got KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON to work on my Mac, and I can’t say I’ve missed it.

> On 10 Apr 2018, at 12:26, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Apparently mixing wxWidgets-gtk2 and wxPython-gtk3 [1] is not only an
> Arch issue anymore, as the upcoming Ubuntu release (bionic) also
> provides wxPython package built against gtk3 [package: 2, bug report: 3].
> 
> There are two things we can do to fix the problem for v5:
> - Backport python-wxgtk3.0 package built against gtk2. This way
> everything works as it used to be, but only for the nightlies. For the
> official release the users would be forced to add a PPA providing the
> backported package and it sounds troublesome.
> 
> - Disable KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON, as there is still available
> libwxgtk3.0 package [4] build against gtk2. The drawbacks are that the
> Python shell in pcbnew and scripts taking advantage of wxPython to
> display a GUI will not work anymore.
> 
> In other news: Ubuntu bionic also ships wxPhoenix [5].
> 
> Cheers,
> Orson
> 
> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1747677
> 2. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python-wxgtk3.0
> 3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1762432
> 4. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libwxgtk3.0-0v5
> 5. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python3-wxgtk4.0
> 
> 
> 
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