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  • From: Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Why is wxgtk-new at version 3.1? (wxWidgets confusion in general)
  • Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 08:28:40 -0500

Yeah, let's downgrade this one, unless we have a _very_ strong reason
not to do so.

Since we shouldn't treat development branches as stable if the latter
exist.

On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 13:19:59 +0100
Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to get things working on my box again and that includes some
> stuff using wxWidgets. We have an unfortunate situation where even a
> rogue wxwidgets spell exists in additon to the WXWIDGET providers wxgtk
> and wxgtk-new.
>
> I would like to fix this, as I'm also partly responsible for
> perpetuating this mess. One obvious thing to do would be to drop the
> wxwidgets spell (which is not in stable). But it actually is the more
> sensible one compared to wxgtk-new: It is at a stable release version
> 3.0.x, not on the devel branch 3.1.x.
>
> Is there any reason we should _not_ downgrade wxgtk-new to the proper
> release version (and hopefully have more success building things like
> wxperl … and have working audacity)? The downgrade itself will break
> things unless we add some smart triggering detecting it. But it's
> possible to do. And we don't break any upgrade from stable, which still
> should be our focus … keeping the belief alive that there will be a new
> stable grimoire eventually.
>
>
> Alrighty then,
>
> Thomas
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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>

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