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

[Eric Gallager]

I am still on 10.6 and still use the `+carbon` variant for
py-wxpython-2.8...



On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The port py-wxpython-2.8 currently supports two conflicting variants:
>    +carbon (32-bit Carbon-based wxWidgets)
>    +gtk (GTK-based wxWidgets)
>
> On 10.6 the variant +carbon is the default one, while on 10.7 and
> later only +gtk can be used anyway.
>
> I would like to remove the variant "+carbon" because it complicates
> matters more than necessary and removing it only affects "outdated"
> software on "outdated" OS in the way that users would be forced to use
> X11 instead of 32-bit Carbon, but the ports would still work.
>
>
> The kind of complications I'm talking about is that a port like
> py-robotframework-ride would need to explicitly support three
> different variants (wxwidgets30, wxwidgets28, wxgtk28), set
> "supported_archs i386 ppc" with wxwidgets28, refuse to compile with
> Xcode 4.4 and later, make sure that the right variant is active
> (require_active_variants port:py${python.version}-wxpython-2.8 carbon gtk)
> and be executed with 'arch -i386 <binary_name>'. Without all that the
> building on the buildbot fails.
>
>
> List of ports that depend on wxPython 2.8:
> - gis/grass (broken at the moment anyway)
> - python/py-robotframework-ride
> - python/py26-pyphant (kind-of-broken, compatibility with 3.0 almost
> finished)
> - python/py-pyface (also supports Qt which is superior)
>
> - editors/spe (somewhat outdated)
> - python/py-dsv (somewhat outdated)
>
> If anyone has a strong argument against the removal of Carbon support
> in wxPython 2.8, please speak now.
>
> Mojca
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