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[Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>]

It seems the easy solution to me too. I just wonder how many people rely
on the Python shell or GUIs done with wxPython.

On 04/10/2018 01:32 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
> 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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