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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is because of the wxversion.py. It will then be provided by multiple
packages and I don't think it distinguishes different toolkit versions,
only multiple wxpython versions.

https://wiki.wxpython.org/MultiVersionInstalls


2018-04-10 14:56 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:

> 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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