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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Simon, thanks for update.  I knew it wasn't going to be that easy.  I'm
guessing mroszko will be OK with this.

On 9/7/2016 11:50 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
> 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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