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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just fyi mroszko's code doesn't currently build on osx, due to missing
stuff in cmakelists.txt i will try and find some time to make a patch
and send it to mroszko so there is something on osx



On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'll commit it if there are no other serious objections.  Speak now or
> forever hold your peace.  This may be short lived if the wxFB folks
> start working on wxFB again.  If they do, I hope they come up with a
> better release version policy.
>
> On 9/7/2016 8:09 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>> Wayne,
>>
>> I attach a patch updating the UI policy. I would rather you commit the
>> patch, to be sure you agree with the changes.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Orson
>>
>> On 09/03/2016 02:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh 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.
>>>
>>> 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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