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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Should I file a bug or just send in a patch in a bit?  Hey, do we think
there might be a similar issue on Windows?

Adam

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 11:21 AM Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi Adam,
>
> I’d stick it in a function in common.cpp.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeff.
>
>
> On 18 Dec 2018, at 14:07, Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi folks!
>
> I've been tracking a macOS issue that I thought was a packaging issue, but
> I think needs to be fixed in KiCad.
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-mac-builder/issues/227
>
> Basically, the BOM Generator dialog is running python but it's running the
> system python (with the bundled python's libraries :D).  We want it to run
> the bundled python.  When users modify the command to use the bundled
> python, it works fine.
>
> So I dug into it, and we fix the PATH so that when something from pcbnew
> runs "python", it runs the right python on both macOS and Windows.
>
>
> https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-source-mirror/blob/27d57d9191d0807722f2cd2b6b61cdb67e247612/pcbnew/pcbnew.cpp#L260
>
> So, code organization-wise, what's the best way to run something similar
> in eeschema?  Do we do it in a more global area?  Do we pull it into a
> function and call it in both places?
>
> I'm handy with C++ and Kicad building, but I have zero intuition for how
> things are arranged in the code base--I just haven't spent that much time
> on it.  Any tips or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks folks!
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