[MacPorts] #67628: Any reason we do not have wxWidgets-3.1 port?

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Wed Jun 14 19:25:30 UTC 2023


#67628: Any reason we do not have wxWidgets-3.1 port?
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  Reporter:  barracuda156  |      Owner:  (none)
      Type:  request       |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal        |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports         |    Version:  2.8.1
Resolution:                |   Keywords:
      Port:  wxWidgets     |
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Comment (by mojca):

 According to https://github.com/macports/macports-
 ports/commit/15a8f434cad82f465ddb7977d4dcb26d686540fe the version 3.1.2
 apparently requires at least 10.8 SDK.

 I haven't been paying much attention lately, so I'm no longer sure whether
 10.11+ is in fact exact or not, though I would be somewhat surprised if
 you would be able to build 3.1 on 10.5 either without non-trivial
 patching. It's often not that the framework really needs those new
 versions, but they want to add a cool new feature and it's extra work
 (with no significant number of users) to keep compatibility for ancient
 macOS versions. Very often it's just an unconditionally added function
 call from a a newer SDK.

 I don't expect super significant differences between 3.1 and 3.2. A
 package that works with 3.1 should probably work with very little (or no)
 effort with 3.2 as well. But neither of the two will build out-of-the-box
 on 10.5.

 (I would slightly prefer if we didn't have to introduce another
 "development package" for this, but in case we would need to ...)

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