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Re: wxWidgets version.

 

Hi,

just FYI… I am using 3.0.1 on OSX since it has been published.
I used eeschema quite a lot since then, pcbnew not so much.
I never did see any problem with it…


Regards,
Bernhard
 
On 06.09.2014, at 16:49, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 9/5/2014 5:04 PM, Andrew Zonenberg wrote:
>> In addition, I strongly recommend putting a warning when someone tries
>> to build against wx 3.0.1 on Linux based on the regression I found a
>> while ago.
> 
> I believe this bug is only on GTK3 builds.  I have no problems on
> windows.  I'm not sure what the status is on OSX but I haven't heard
> anything.  The wxWidgets folks really need to another patch release.
> This is a critical bug that effects every program the uses a busy
> cursor.  We can't seem to catch a break.  There are bugs in 2.8.12 and
> 3.0.1.  I'm hoping that at least some of the Linux distros will patch
> 3.0.1 but we cannot depend on that.  Sighhhhhh!
> 
>> 
>> On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 17:01 -0400, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>> I know we have informally discussed dropping wxWidgets 2.8 support due
>>> to it's known issues.  Not that wxWidgets 3 is not without issues but I
>>> believe it is time to kick 2.8 support to the curb.  This way we only
>>> have to support the issues in the 3 branch.  I also doubt that the
>>> wxWidgets folks will support any more 2.8 bug fix releases.  If no one
>>> has any strong objections, I will modify our FindwxWidgets.cmake file to
>>> support version testing and fail if the version of wxWidgets is less
>>> than 3.0.0.
>>> 
>>> Wayne
>>> 
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