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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm fine with that given that there is a reasonable probability that
wxPython support will be disabled for some platforms until we resolve
the gtk3 issues.

On 4/10/2018 9:14 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> 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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