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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the note needs to add some instructions to check out the
wxFB3.5-RC1 branch.
The default 'master' is probably not something we want at this point in
time.

- Cirilo

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
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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