Dear Seth, First thanks for all your (and all team) efforts for making KiCad a great EDA software. About Python, I'm really interested to take a look at discussions on that point. As I understand, swig will not be used anymore and pybind11 become the future (but not sure of my interpretation of commits ;). As you know I maintain a Via stitching tool in python since few years and as I know there are some users. So following discussion and developments is interesting for me...
Regards, Le 16/11/2021 à 19:24, Seth Hillbrand a écrit : > Hi Folks- > > Unfortunately, we were not able to get the Python revisions into version > 6. As such, we'll be using the legacy SWIG implementation for pcbnew > during v6 and will introduce the updated API early in the v7 development > process. > > ## What happened? > > Our goals for the Python API were to make a stable set of calls that > plugin developers could rely on to work over multiple KiCad versions and > to expand python scripting to eeschema. This required abstracting a > number of underlying concepts and re-writing a set of core > applications. And it didn't get done in time. > > We decided that it was more important to get v6 out to our userbase with > the status quo python scripting than for an indefinite delay to get the > first API out. > > ## What's the plan going forward? > > Following the release of v6, the KiCad core dev team will be meeting to > plan out our work for v7. One of the items on our agenda will be to > review where things went well and poorly in the v6 development. We do > this with the intention of improving both our development work and our > communication with the community during upcoming releases. > > We're also going to be reaching out to some of our plugin developers to > get their input on things that they'd like to use the API for and ways > that we might be able to facilitate that in v7. If you have interest in > being a part of that discussion (and you have published a couple plugins > for KiCad or other projects), please reach out. We're happy to include you. > > I deeply regret that we won't have a shiny new python interface in v6. > I know that this will be a disappointment to a number of people. > Hopefully, the major advancements that we have built into v6 will > assuage that somewhat. > > --- > Seth > > -- > KiCad Services Corporation Logo > Seth Hillbrand > *Lead Developer* > +1-530-302-5483 > Long Beach, CA > www.kipro-pcb.com <https://www.kipro-pcb.com/> [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
