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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

So many distros have wxwidgets with gtk2 and gtk3, but now most upgrade
wxpython to gtk3.

2018-04-10 15:36 GMT+02:00 Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>:

> This is because of the wxversion.py. It will then be provided by multiple
> packages and I don't think it distinguishes different toolkit versions,
> only multiple wxpython versions.
>
> https://wiki.wxpython.org/MultiVersionInstalls
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> 2018-04-10 14:56 GMT+02:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> I wonder why they couldn't make a gtk2 version of wxPython.  It seems
>> plausible since they created a gtk2 version of wxWidgets.  Looks like
>> the work load just got increased during v6 development.  Maybe we should
>> attack that first and backport the gtk3 fixes to v5 so distros wont have
>> to support gtk2 builds of wx.
>>
>> On 4/10/2018 8:48 AM, Maciej Suminski wrote:
>> > In the bug reported for Ubuntu bionic (lp:#1762432) there are three
>> > packages installed:
>> >
>> > - libwxgtk3.0-0v5:amd64       (wxWidgets/GTK2)
>> > - libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 (wxWidgets/GTK3)
>> > - python-wxgtk3.0 (wxPython/GTK3)
>> >
>> > My guess is that some applications may depend on wxWidgets/GTK2, and
>> > wxWidgets/GTK3 is simply installed as a dependency of wxPython/GTK3.
>> >
>> > On 04/10/2018 02:36 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> >> For our v5 release, I guess we are going to have to disable wxPython on
>> >> the platforms who insist on building wxPython with gtk3.  We can start
>> >> looking at the transition to gtk3 and wxPhoenix during v6 development.
>> >>
>> >> Are distros actually shipping with wxWidgets built with gtk2 and
>> >> wxPython built with gtk3?  This seems to be the case if I'm reading
>> this
>> >> correctly.  If they are, the question is why?
>> >>
>> >> On 4/10/2018 7:35 AM, Maciej Sumiński wrote:
>> >>> It seems the easy solution to me too. I just wonder how many people
>> rely
>> >>> on the Python shell or GUIs done with wxPython.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 04/10/2018 01:32 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>> >>>> I never got KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON to work on my Mac, and I can’t
>> say I’ve missed it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> On 10 Apr 2018, at 12:26, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Apparently mixing wxWidgets-gtk2 and wxPython-gtk3 [1] is not only
>> an
>> >>>>> Arch issue anymore, as the upcoming Ubuntu release (bionic) also
>> >>>>> provides wxPython package built against gtk3 [package: 2, bug
>> report: 3].
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> There are two things we can do to fix the problem for v5:
>> >>>>> - Backport python-wxgtk3.0 package built against gtk2. This way
>> >>>>> everything works as it used to be, but only for the nightlies. For
>> the
>> >>>>> official release the users would be forced to add a PPA providing
>> the
>> >>>>> backported package and it sounds troublesome.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> - Disable KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON, as there is still available
>> >>>>> libwxgtk3.0 package [4] build against gtk2. The drawbacks are that
>> the
>> >>>>> Python shell in pcbnew and scripts taking advantage of wxPython to
>> >>>>> display a GUI will not work anymore.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> In other news: Ubuntu bionic also ships wxPhoenix [5].
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Cheers,
>> >>>>> Orson
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1747677
>> >>>>> 2. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python-wxgtk3.0
>> >>>>> 3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1762432
>> >>>>> 4. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libwxgtk3.0-0v5
>> >>>>> 5. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/python3-wxgtk4.0
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
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