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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, I can try that, but I am on vacation thus week, so I am not sure I will
get arpund to it very soon.

lør. 23. mar. 2019 12.34 skrev Mitja Nemec <mitjan696-ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi Nick!
>
> As a python plugin writer, I am starting to get bug reports from ubuntu
> 18.04 users, as with 5.1 supporting GTK3 they've finally managed to run
> python plugins.
> More than half a year ago, you've made a Kicad python3 windows installer
> with WXPYTHON disabled. At that time this enabled me to test the business
> logic of my plugins.
>
> I would really appreciate if you could make a 5.1 windows installer with
> python3 support and WXPYTHON disabled. But if you are tight on time, I can
> totally understand.
>
> Best regards, Mitja
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* thomas.pointhuber@xxxxxx
> *Cc:* KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 14 August 2018, 23:26
> *Subject:* Re: [Kicad-developers] [PATCH] get initial Python 3 support
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> I am happy to see that we port to python3 for various reasons, that
> should be obvious to everyone.
>
> I have been testing your branch a bit on windows, just to get an
> overview of what changes might be needed. So far I think I made it
> work as you have on linux.
>
> A lite installer is available on [link will disappear eventually]
>
> http://downloads.kicad-pcb.org/windows/testing/patched/kicad-patched-88-review-8244-gef7a2fcc3-x86_64.exe
>
> The build is of course with wxpython disabled, as it is my
> understanding that it does not support python3, and the next step is
> to migrate to wx phoenix which should indeed support python3.
>
> I could start the python.exe inside the kicad/bin dir and import
> pcbnew without errors.
>
> I did not try to run any standalone scripts.
>
> I did try a couple of footprint wizards in the footprint editor, and
> some of them seemingly worked. But the BARCODE USS-39 errors. It looks
> like it needs to be updated to py3k syntax.
>
> Regards
> Nick Østergaard
> Den lør. 4. aug. 2018 kl. 12.23 skrev Thomas Pointhuber
> <thomas.pointhuber@xxxxxx>:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I managed to get KiCad to run with Python 3 as well as did some quick
> > verification that basic methods are working using CLI (loading boards,
> > calling a method of it).
> >
> > Bugreport: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1785119
> >
> > My Branch: https://github.com/pointhi/kicad-source-mirror/tree/python3
> >
> > scripting inside of kicad was not tested because I'm not really familiar
> > with it right now, as well as because of known wx problems with that
> stuff.
> >
> > For now it can be enabled using -DKICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
> > It is not possible to export modules for python 2 and python 3 with one
> > build at the moment, but this should a thing which can be fixed in the
> > build-script.
> >
> > I made some small changes to existing python code to get it working on
> > both versions. To my knowledge and tests the scripts should not have
> > changed behavior.
> >
> > Regards, Thomas
> >
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