wxWidgets upgrade to lower version?
James Kyle
jameskyle at macports.org
Sun Jun 28 17:22:11 PDT 2009
On Jun 27, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Jyrki Wahlstedt wrote:
> Sorry
> to come into this this late, but some background info for this might
> be useful. There would be no trouble at all keeping wxWidgets at the
> latest stable version, but and this is a big but, the upstream
> maintainer of wxPython has the convention of including wxWidgets
> sources in his own releases. Now there would be no trouble, if the
> releases were in sync, but it so happens that with some of wxPython
> releases the included wxWidgets has some features not present in the
> stable version.
> With 2.8.9 and 2.8.10 there are these discrepancies, due to which
> the downgrade was necessary.
>
> PS I tried a few times to get the wxPython release system to make
> more sense by having the releases in sync (wouldn't even be
> necessary to include wxWidgets!), but with no success. Sorry for the
> tone of this message, but I am quite bitter about this, problems are
> thrown upon us with no way out.
I went through the same thing with py26-wxwidgets as the above which
accounts for the recent back and forth until all three were in sync.
Thank you for clarifying for the list, jyrki.
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