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[Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry - ignore the last post - I managed to miss the part of the patch
that did specify the branch.

- Cirilo

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Cirilo Bernardo <cirilo.bernardo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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