WXwindows defunct?

[Landon Fuller]

On Mar 24, 2007, at 16:33, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Mar 24, 2007, at 17:21, Mark Duling wrote:
>
>> Has WXWidgets replaced WXWindows?
>
> Yes...
>
>
>> WXWindows port is broken and no ports depend on it.  Can it be  
>> deleted?
>
> Or it might be better to make the wxwindows port simply uninstall  
> itself and install the wxwidgets port, like this:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports/ 
> gnome/abiword2/Portfile?rev=19081

There are locking/concurrency issues with recursively calling port  
from within an executing Portfile. That usage is a remarkably evil  
way of avoiding improving the base system. 
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