Numpy, other pip package installs for pcbnew scripting

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@eelik

Does it matter when the platform itself, Windows, is closed source?

it does matter for me (and I think I’m not alone)… to get the building chain you need to use a proprietary compiler within all the issue related.

@eelik

It’s a practical decision, not ideological. Apparently Open Source would have been preferred if it had worked.

??? the ‘only’ stopper afaik is wxpython 4 (with py3 support) built for windows msys2
there were some wip

Kicad Python3 support on windows

Hello, I need to script KiCad with python3 for various reasons. Default Kicad windows binaries are not built with “KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3” option “ON”. I tried to build KiCad using msys2 but it seems wxpython 4 (supporting python3) has no msys packages. I tried to build wxPython on msys, but this look to be quite a hard task as it detect a windows platform and try to build using VS (http://wxpython-users.1045709.n5.nabble.com/Install-wxPython-4-for-MSYS2-td5728732.html) Is python3 support …

is that been abandoned?
[EDIT] it seems it has been solved here:

The snapshot wxPython-4.1.2a1.dev5156+3500ac7a.tar.gz wxPython now compiles on MSYS2 and can be imported in python.

Problem building wxPython 4.1.1 on MSYS2