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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/15/2014 02:05 PM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote:
> As a user of wx 2.8 on Debian I would like to ensure that, as a minimum,
> kicad continues to build on it until the next stable Debian version
> (presumably shipping wx 3.0) is released.

You have that capability.  Probably I will uninstall wx2.8 tomorrow.

There would be no reason to reject your patches on this topic, and you could easily make a
lot of people happy.

But don't think I was bullshitting you when I said I would not spend another minute on it.



> If new features can't be easily made to work on wx2.8 that's
> understandable as long as there's some graceful downgrade in
> functionality rather than a total build failure.
> 
>> My motive to support wx2.8 is now zilch.  The project can make its own policy without my
>> input on wx2.8 support, but I personally won't spend another minute on it.
>>
>> Here is my personal reasoning:  Ubuntu Trusty is free, my time is not.
>>
>>
>> Dick