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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Ian

On 6/5/19 1:03 PM, Ian McInerney wrote:
> I was just noticing based on a post on the kicad forums that the CMake
> script will forcefully enable KICAD_SCRIPTING if either
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENUS or KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES is turned on.
> This means to really disable scripting the user has to explicitly force
> all 3 to off (since they are all on by default). Is there are reason for
> making those two options take priority over the overall scripting
> support option instead of having KICAD_SCRIPTING take priority and
> disable those two when it is disabled? It seems more intuitive if
> KICAD_SCRIPTING has overall control of the scripting environment, and
> the others are dependent upon it.

KICAD_SCRIPTIN_MODULES and KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENUS depend on
KICAD_SCRIPTING being built so it has to be enabled.  However,
KICAD_SCRIPTING does not depend on the other two so it can be enabled by
itself.

> 
> This hierarchy is not actually mentioned in any of the build docs
> here http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/doxygen/md_Documentation_development_compiling.html ;(and
> the docs seem to be slightly out of date also, since they say
> KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU defaults to off when it is actually on by
> default), so if nothing else it would be good to mention it in the build
> docs so people who really don't want scripting know to disable all 3.

I will update the compiling doc to reflect this.

Wayne

> 
> -Ian
> 
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