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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

I would vote in favor of using Mark's fork officially for everyone, if
it builds okay on all the platforms. wxfb is kinda nasty, if we're going
to use it it's nice to have our own fork that solves at least a few of
these issues.

On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 08:45:12AM +1000, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
> I just use MRoszko's fork; it's cleaner than the original and much
> easier to configure and build since the bizarre wxFB build system
> had been eradicated and replaced by CMake.
> 
> git clone https://github.com/marekr/wxFormBuilder.git wxfb
> cd wxfb && git checkout wxFB3.5-1
> 
> A half year or so ago I tried the later wxFB in development but it
> broke so many things that I just reverted the files and went back to
> wxFB3,5-1.
> 
> - Cirilo
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > Along these lines: this isn't the first time wxfb version issues have
> > come up. Perhaps we should pick an "official" wxfb version for the
> > project to use, and then actually provide builds of it for developer use
> > (as it can be a bit annoying to track down a specific version)? Then we
> > can upgrade together as new versions come out.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 09:16:41AM +1200, Simon Wells wrote:
> > > dialog_pad_properties_base.fbp h cpp was last modified in commit
> > >
> > > 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213
> > > https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id=
> > 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213
> > >
> > > the problem is this version of wxformbuilder is newer than the one
> > > available on sourceforge and it is very difficult to build on other
> > > platforms ( i tried a while ago and gave up as it had issues)
> > >
> > > the version that was used to save these files has broken it on older
> > > versions of wxformbuilder
> > >
> > > Is there a version of wxformbuilder that we should be using to avoid
> > > it breaking on other versions?
> > >
> > > the last available from sf.net is 3.5rc1 iirc
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > Simon
> > >
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