Most Windows users have no Python, which the MCP server needs. The
installer now offers "Python for the AI assistant", unticked by default:
the official embeddable package from python.org (3.14.7, ~12 MB, no
registry, removed with QElectroTech), in <folder>\mcp\python. The
portable folder and the MSI, which pack all of files/, carry it.
The workflow downloads it pinned by version and by python.org's own
sha256 for the file (checked against python.org's download API), and
fails the build on a mismatch. The script stays plain text beside it.
Checked under Wine (64-bit, qet-wine-smoke image), on an installer built
with makensis 3.10 (0 warnings, strings in all 29 languages):
- a silent default install puts mcp\qet_mcp.py in place and no Python;
the same installer with the section ticked by default installs it, so
the check tells the two apart;
- the installed Python runs the installed server: 15 tools listed,
qet_project_info on an example answers as on Linux, and the server
finds bin\QElectroTech.exe and elements\ by itself.
Not checked: a real Windows machine; the CI download step (fork run).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The MCP server (misc/qet-mcp) was only reachable from a source checkout.
It now ships with every package, next to the program, and finds that
QElectroTech and its element collection from where it sits:
- make install (Linux distributions, snap, flatpak):
<prefix>/share/qelectrotech/mcp/qet_mcp.py, executable, with its README.
- Windows installer: a new "AI assistant (MCP)" component (on by default,
~200 KB), installed to <folder>\mcp. The workflow stages files/mcp, so
the portable folder and the MSI, which packs all of files/, carry it too.
The server learns the Windows layout (<root>/mcp beside <root>/bin, whose
program is QElectroTech.exe, and <root>/elements), in addition to
<prefix>/share/qelectrotech/mcp. A copy saved anywhere else, even beside
some bin/ folder, is not taken for an installation.
The installer strings are given in all 29 installer languages: French
translated, the others in English until translated, which is what NSIS
would fall back to anyway but without its warning 6040 per language.
Checked: make install into a scratch prefix, then from the installed
script with nothing configured and no qelectrotech on PATH, an SVG export
and a qet_edit placing a common:// element both succeeded. makensis 3.10
compiles the installer with 0 warnings before and after (removing the
French description gives warning 6040), and the installer contains
mcp/qet_mcp.py. Suite 274/274 none skipped; each layout check was
removed in turn and a test failed. Snap/flatpak: installed by the same
CMake rule; launching their QElectroTech from outside is untested.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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