Re: URGENT: Please evaluate this easy fix enabling wxgtk2.1 to build!
Diana Galletly wrote:
> I'd really like to reiterate the fact that I think it'd be good if _a_
> version of wxgtk makes it into potato.
I don't really see the sense in this, since there will be _no_ apps in
potato that will use it.
> Granted 2.1.11 may not be the
> most up-to-date version out there, but if waiting until 2.2 is released
> means no wxgtk *at all* in potato, fixing the (smallish) bugs that are
> stopping it from building seems to me to be a Good Plan.
What does it gain us except inviting bug reports for bugs that have already
been fixed and which the wxPeople will only respond to by saying "try the
latest version." -- wasting the time of both Debian users and wxWin
developers. Not to mention the Bad PR of releasing something that is known
will cause people grief when they upgrade to 2.2
> Given the
> frequency at which Debian releases seem to happen, if it gets left
> until woody, that'll be a year or so of no wxgtk package in Debian.
Feh. I'll go out on a limb to say most developers will be using woody
*long* before then. I only took over packaging it _after_ the Debian
freeze began so there wasn't much I could do about the outdated version
in potato, but the reason I've held off uploading packages to woody
before now is the rate at which the api has been changing without actually
bumping the upstream library version.
This whole discussion has come about because of a change to the gtk api
which broke a whole range of things using it. I don't really want to
see wxWin even appear to follow in those footsteps if at all possible
(which it is with an api freeze immanent). Let's just be a little
patient and get a version into woody that people can develop apps with,
with the confidence that the next upgrade they do won't break them for no
other reason than us 'fine tuning' an api under development.
Debian traditionally prides itself on smooth upgrades.. I've been
working pretty hard to make sure wxWin can fit into that ideal too.
> If I *could* help to fix this, I would ... :-(
.. I don't suppose you are handy with time machines by any chance?? :)
best,
Ron
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