On 2/12/2017 5:15 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier wrote: > >> On 12 Feb 2017, at 22:18, Wayne Stambaugh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2/12/2017 5:37 AM, Simon Wells wrote: >>> i am stuck on the below as i do not understand whats trying to be >>> achieved doing this >>> >>> # For phase 1, copy _pcbnew.kiface to the python module. line onward >>> (line 733ish) >>> >>> until the end of the if, and its broken for me. >> >> It should just be a copy of the _pcbnew.kiface to the python library >> with the correct python extension for python to a folder where python >> can find it. I'm not sure what the file extension is or where the >> python library install path is in osx. I can check with Dick but I'm >> pretty sure by looking at the patch that is what it does. > > Did this (I guess it is using pcbnew stuff from machines python installation, > not the python form inside pcbnew) ever work on macOS? > > That doesn’t really make sense on macOS with application bundles (IMHO). > The install step is just an intermediate step to create the initial bundle on > the build machine. > If you install it to some python folder on the build machine, it won’t get > anywhere on a users machine when installing (== copying) the bundle (the > bundle is not more than a folder, so you don’t really “install” anything). > > One thing would probably be to create an own installer/bundle for this python > stuff, which puts things in the right places on the destination machine. I > don’t know if this is easily possible, because you could have more than one > python installed and I don’t know about paths in libs. > Or, put it inside the bundle and let user handle it on his own (by > symlinking, whatever…). > > Same fun will come up on Linux with AppImage stuff (and the other similar > approaches)… > > > Regards, > Bernhard >
Please send me the build output for the build failure with this patch. Dick offered to try to resolve it but he needs the build log. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
