Drop SWIG python interface
The SWIG auto-generated bindings for KiCad are not a real API and directly expose KiCad implementation details, meaning that it is essentially not possible to provide stability between KiCad versions. Providing a directly-coupled interface to KiCad also exposes the entire application to bugs in plugins (and vice versa).
We will remove SWIG (and wxPython, etc) from KiCad once a real API is available that does not expose KiCad internals and does not run plugins in the KiCad process.
KiCad Version
Application: KiCad Schematic Editor (64-bit)
Version: (5.99.0-12165-gb0ba8b01c4), debug build
Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.1.5
libcurl/7.78.0-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.11
Platform: Windows 10 (build 19043), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW
Build Info:
Date: Sep 1 2021 00:05:34
wxWidgets: 3.1.5 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.76.0
OCC: 7.5.0
Curl: 7.78.0-DEV
ngspice: 35
Compiler: Visual C++ 1929 without C++ ABI
Build settings:
KICAD_USE_OCC=ON
KICAD_SPICE=ON
KICAD_STDLIB_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_STDLIB_LIGHT_DEBUG=OFF
KICAD_SANITIZE_ADDRESS=OFF
KICAD_SANITIZE_THREADS=OFF
Edited by Jon Evans