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FS#7439 - [wxgtk] What's halting the update to 2.8.4?

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Rulatir (Rulatir) - Wednesday, 13 June 2007, 19:12 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 31 August 2007, 08:35 GMT
Task Type Support Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

What is halting the update of wxgtk to 2.8.4? How can I help? Any timeline?
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 31 August 2007, 08:35 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Updated to 2.8.4.
- added patch to fix invalid free with latest gtk-engines
- removed 2.8.0.1 patch
- Recompiled VLC with wx 2.6.4, as VLC doesn't support 2.8 officially and has a broken UI with 2.8.4.
Comment by Flavien Bridault (vlaaad) - Monday, 02 July 2007, 21:07 GMT
The version in current seems quite buggy, I would also appreciate the update if nothing prevents it...
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 02 July 2007, 22:02 GMT
Let's break API on minor updates, even micro updates beak API. I don't get these wxwidgets people breaking their API all the time. This is what keeps us from updating wxwidgets: things are broken no matter what you do with wxwidgets.
Comment by Flavien Bridault (vlaaad) - Tuesday, 03 July 2007, 06:27 GMT
Mmm ok... This is not really serious to break the API on each update !

Hopefully I almost only use wxGTK for my own work and *for me*, 2.8.4 didn't break anything and solved some annoying bugs. But I understand well that you can't upgrade it if it breaks things elsewhere. Thanks a lot for your quick answer. :)
Comment by Rulatir (Rulatir) - Tuesday, 03 July 2007, 11:53 GMT
Meanwhile I have successfully made and installed a 2.8.4 package, but there is a little problem with it: pacman wants to forcibly downgrade it to 2.8.0 every time I do -Su, so I have to --ignore wxgtk. I am not sure whether I should file a bug report for that, as I don't really know if the problem is with pacman, wxgtk, or a misconfiguration. Please have a look at the attached PKGBUILD.
   PKGBUILD (1 KiB)
Comment by Borromini (Borromini) - Thursday, 26 July 2007, 11:54 GMT
For what it's worth, I fixed up the patch from 2.8.0 to apply to 2.8.4. Most stuff from the patch seems to be incorporated already, except for some C++ source files.
   wxGTK-2.8.4.1.patch (69.9 KiB)

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