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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

When do you think you will be able to begin providing nightly builds
with this so users can test it?  It would be nice to have a few weeks of
testing with Python bundled on macos to shake out any bugs before the
stable release.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 4/23/2018 10:46 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> Hi folks!
> 
> Over the weekend, I made a culminating breakthrough on some Python
> work I've been working on since at least March 2017
> (https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2017-March/065140.html).  I now
> have a Python Framework embedded inside KiCad, scripting console and
> all, which fixes many issues we've had for years.  For instance, I can
> no longer reproduce the longstanding "Mac KiCad stops working if you
> have wxmac or wxpython installed".  !!!
> 
> My changes require *one* change inside KiCad, setting
> BU_COPY_FULL_FRAMEWORK_CONTENTS to ON (see
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/module/BundleUtilities.html) so that
> it copies the complied full custom Python Framework into the bundle.
> 
> I am going to prepare a patch, and see if the last-generation
> packaging scripts still work.  I expect they should--I don't actually
> suspect any change for anyone else, because the Python framework is
> usually a system framework, and those are filtered out by
> BundleUtilities.  Doing a clean build from the old scripts to test it
> will take a good chunk of today.  (I am not 100% sure it won't cause
> problems for other folks, so I am prepared to set this behind a CMake
> flag so people can turn it off.)
> 
> That'll take me a day, and I know we're running into a deadline, so I
> just wanted to pipeline any necessary discussion :)
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
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