Any objections to removal of the carbon variant in py-wxpython-2.8?

Eric Gallager egall at gwmail.gwu.edu
Fri Jan 17 11:33:33 PST 2014


It just feels more Mac-native. Also it has a shorter dependency chain in
that it does not drag in gtk, nor does it require that gtk be installed
with the `+x11` variant.



On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org>wrote:

>
> On Jan 15, 2014, at 19:57, Eric Gallager wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> >> On Jan 15, 2014, at 10:27, Eric Gallager wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am still on 10.6 and still use the `+carbon` variant for
> py-wxpython-2.8…
> >>
> >> Yes but would it be a problem for you to use the +gtk variant instead?
> If so please explain.
> >
> > No, just that I prefer it and currently use it... I could probably do
> without it though.
>
> Why do you prefer it? In what way is the carbon variant different from the
> gtk variant?
>
>
>
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