[MacPorts] #38375: Ports depending on wxWidgets* should either use path-style dependencies or variants instead

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#38375: Ports depending on wxWidgets* should either use path-style dependencies or
variants instead
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  Reporter:  egall@…                             |      Owner:  macports-
      Type:  defect                              |  tickets@…
  Priority:  Normal                              |     Status:  new
 Component:  ports                               |  Milestone:
Resolution:                                      |    Version:  2.1.3
      Port:  codeblocks FileZilla fityk hugin-   |   Keywords:
  app lisaem py-wxpython rt-volume-rendering     |
  usbprog wxd otrproxy                           |
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Comment (by ryandesign@…):

 The wxWidgets situation in MacPorts is basically a disaster, which is
 mostly the fault of the developers of wxWidgets for not releasing a 64-bit
 compatible version, 3.0, which they've needed to do since the release of
 Snow Leopard 3.5 years ago already, and partly the fault of MacPorts
 maintainers for introducing so many different wxWidgets ports with
 conflicting naming styles and unclear differentiation between them.

 I've [https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-
 dev/2012-September/020502.html suggested before], and
 [https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-
 dev/2012-October/020900.html continue to recommend], in as far as I
 understand wxWidgets at all, that the existing wxWidgets ports be
 deprecated in favor of new versioned ports, e.g. wxWidgets28 and
 wxWidgets30. This hasn't really been accomplished yet. See also #37819.

 I would not hold up poedit as an example of how to handle the wxWidgets
 dependency correctly; on the contrary I find its method convoluted and
 bizarre.

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