On 2016-12-09 15:39-0500 Pedro Vicente wrote: > so, it seems that the cmake option is really needed > -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON > > I only found out this by reading the script
Reading the script is an excellent idea so I encourage you to keep doing that. However, we also document such changes in our release notes. In this case you won't find that documentation in README.release because OLD_WXWIDGETS was introduced in a previous release. So instead you have to look in the cumulated old release notes, OLD-README.release for the relevant documentation of -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON. [...] > I have a request, would it be possible to have the "deprecated" > wxWidgets code and the templated one at the same time? No. If you want access to both for comparisons, use separate build trees (and install trees). Also, -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON is deprecated because it is an emergency measure which gives you access to the old frozen wxwidgets code. There is no further support for -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON beyond that because that old wxwidgets code was not Phil's responsibility and there are lots of known issues with it. So Phil is focussing exclusively on development of the new wxwidgets. Thus, if you find some features you like with -DOLD_WXWIDGETS=ON, then ideally you should make changes to your local _new_ wxwidgets to add that feature and send patches (ideally generated by "git format-patch") to this list for Phil to evaluate. N.B. it is a virtual certainty your patch will be rejected if it contains fixes for multiple issues. So instead each of your individual patches should focus on just one logical issue at a time. And sometimes we do reject ideas such as yours above to have both old and new wxwidgets in the same build tree. But so long as your patches are focussed on one thing at a time (and not necessarily limited to just the new wxwidgets) and otherwise acceptable, then such development help with PLplot would be much appreciated. (Note, we recommend "git format-patch" for generating patches because that gives you full credit for your work in the git log.) Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
