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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Right now, one of the last blockers for the Mac v5 packaging efforts
is wxpython.  If it's having issues on other platforms, I may actually
table that for a few days and see if we can get everything else going,
and then we can have a good* (minus wxpython) rc2 for testing, and
then tackle wxpython as the last remaining thing.

Does that seem reasonable?

Adam

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder why they couldn't make a gtk2 version of wxPython.  It seems
> plausible since they created a gtk2 version of wxWidgets.  Looks like
> the work load just got increased during v6 development.  Maybe we should
> attack that first and backport the gtk3 fixes to v5 so distros wont have
> to support gtk2 builds of wx.
>
> On 4/10/2018 8:48 AM, Maciej Suminski wrote:
>> In the bug reported for Ubuntu bionic (lp:#1762432) there are three
>> packages installed:
>>
>> - libwxgtk3.0-0v5:amd64       (wxWidgets/GTK2)
>> - libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 (wxWidgets/GTK3)
>> - python-wxgtk3.0 (wxPython/GTK3)
>>
>> My guess is that some applications may depend on wxWidgets/GTK2, and
>> wxWidgets/GTK3 is simply installed as a dependency of wxPython/GTK3.
>>
>> On 04/10/2018 02:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> For our v5 release, I guess we are going to have to disable wxPython on
>>> the platforms who insist on building wxPython with gtk3.  We can start
>>> looking at the transition to gtk3 and wxPhoenix during v6 development.
>>>
>>> Are distros actually shipping with wxWidgets built with gtk2 and
>>> wxPython built with gtk3?  This seems to be the case if I'm reading this
>>> correctly.  If they are, the question is why?
>>>
>>> On 4/10/2018 7:35 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>>>> 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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