Everyone ready for wxGTK 2.6? [was Re: The future of wxGTK in Extras]

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:28:02PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > What I wonder after reading this is: If GTK1.2 support will be dropped,
> > > what is supposed to happen to packages depending on the GKT1.2 part of
> > > wxGTK like amule (from livna)?
> Hm, what distro versions does such a largish change (dropping the GTK1
> bits) target?  IMNSHO, it should be done only in devel.

Oh, definitely. This is too major of a change to drop on current releases.

> > Maybe we should compile a list of packages using wxGTK,
> $ repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps wxGTK wxGTK2 wxPythonGTK2 | grep -v ^wx
> bochs-0:2.2-2.i386
> bochs-0:2.2.1-1.fc4.i386
> audacity-0:1.2.3-5.i386
> scorched3d-0:37.2-2.i386
> pgadmin3-0:1.0.2-5.i386
> comical-0:0.4-9.fc4.i386

Offhand, I know that audacity needs to be updated to the CVS version (ie
"1.3.0 beta"). It's been close to a year since the last audacity release,
unfortunately. (FWIW, the CVS version *requires* wxWidgets 2.6.)



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