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

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 12:43 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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.

Good.  Just making sure because someone mentioned it being planned to go
"in as an update".

> > > 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.)

Ok.  In addition to the already mentioned packages, dvdstyler and vlc in
Livna use wxWidgets too, dunno about their status wrt. 2.6.