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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> We've been dancing around this issue for a while without any real
> resolution.  I'm fine with using Mark's version of wxFB but a lot folks
> are going to want to use whatever is packaged for their distro rather
> than build wxFB from source which presents a serious issue.  I'm not
> sure there is a good answer for this problem.  If no one else has any
> objections, I'm willing to make Mark's wxFB fork the official version
> for KiCad dialog submission for the time being.  In the long run, if
> wxFB is not actively being developed, I would rather come up with an
> alternative.
>
>
Normally I'd go along with the "users can use whatever version of X is
in their distribution" but wxFB is an extreme case where every stable
version pushed out breaks all previous versions, so going for what's
prepackaged for a distribution in reality will tie the rest of us to
whatever oldest version is available on a contributor's platform and this
is definitely a bad thing. At least using Mark's fork we can make sure
it all builds and runs on all supported platforms and developers will
simply have to build wxFB and maybe even live with 2 versions of wxFB
on their system if they use it for other things as well. On Debian for
example, wxFB is not packaged and building it was an extreme
nuisance until Mark cleaned up the build system and eliminated
numerous counterproductive dependencies which were peculiar to
wxFB's official build system.

- Cirilo



> FWIW, I think most of you know how I feel about dialog creation tools
> vs. creating them programmatically.  Kicad's dialogs used to be created
> this way but I got out voted at the time the decision was made to switch
> to wxFB.  I'm feeling better about my choice all the time. ;)
>
> On 9/2/2016 7:11 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
> > 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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