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[Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>]

yeah there has been talk in the irc channel

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 3:51 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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