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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