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Re: Python 3 now required

 

Great work, thanks! It's also a big relief that plugin developers don't
need to try to support 2 and 3.

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 8:36 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> The current minimum Python version is 3.7 (due to a module test call we
> use) but we are looking at potentially supporting Python 3.6 if we can
> handle dynamic reloads.
>
>
CMake test is for >= 3.6, so this is a problem when someone has 3.6 (as
already happened at least once; see
https://forum.kicad.info/t/kicad-build-error-netlist/29597/12?u=eelik).
Should the requirement be changed?

Eeli Kaikkonen

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