-------- Original Message -------- > From: "Mojca Miklavec" <mo...@macports.org> > Sent: Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2013 14:29 > To: ti...@v9g.de > Subject: Re: request: bringing wxWidgets "up to date" > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Titus von Boxberg wrote: > > Mojca, all, > > > > I don't have a solution for this problem. > > Rather, I have a more fundamental question > > (which, however, may have been discussed already): > > > > Are there any interesting ports that are incompatible with 2.9 > > and really need to be compiled by macports? > > I don't exactly follow / I didn't check. > > > Is 2.9 incompatible with any macports target os version? > > 10.4, so not really important > > > Last time I looked (2012) pgAdmin (and Audacity?) were 2.9-incompatible, > > and both provide precompiled binaries. > > > > So, is there any reason to keep wxWidgets pre 2.9? > > If not, the effort to keep the pre-2.9-ports might be better > > put into bringing the incompatible software to 2.9 > > One of the biggest "problems" is that all ports need to be fixed at > once. Wouldn't that be a simple temporary rename of wxWidgets-devel to wxWidgets (or adapt wxWidgets portfile to use 2.9), and afterwards a port install <wx-dependents> ? If a port fails: has it a binary distribution or is it "uninteresting"? If yes or yes --> go disable it. If no and no --> this idea fails with the port ;-)
I'd define a software as "uninteresting" that hasn't been upstream maintained in quite a period of time (comparable to presence of wx-2.9) or is apparently just a minor joke. > If separating 2.8 and 2.9 is at least reasonably doable, other > ports can later be addressed one-by-one. Also, I expect similar > problems during transition to 3.1/3.2, so proper separation could help > in any case. I don't want to be too pessimistic, but I guess that wx-3.2 release is in a such distant future that at that time macports might have been reimplemented in Objective C and Apple has already deprecated Objective C ;-) In short: I wouldn't care about 3.2 now. Regards, Titus _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list macports-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev