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Re: 5.1

 

Hi,

I made an GTK3 build with wx3.0.4 and didn't noticed more bugs than with
wx3.1.1 and GTK3 on a quick glance.

I'm using X11 as display manager, and run a Arch based system.

Regards,
Thomas

Am 19.10.18 um 11:53 schrieb Carsten Schoenert:
> Hello Seth,
> 
> Am 18.10.18 um 21:52 schrieb seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>> * sense flipped here *  Debian 9 = python-wxgtk only uses gtk2 and 
>> Debian 10 = python-wxgtk only uses gtk3
> 
> yes, and for wxpython3.0 there is currently no backport for stretch
> available and probably will never be due the massive reverse depends the
> uploader would be responsible for.
> 
> Also on the wxwidget3.0 side we have two libraries in the archive of
> unstable/sid and testing/buster.
> 
> libwxgtk3.0-{0v5,dev} vs. libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-{0v5,dev}
> 
> The first is build with GTK2 bindings, the latter with GTK3+ bindings.
> KiCad even in unstable is using the former packages. Debian is planning
> to drop these and do the transition over to the latter version for Buster!
> 
> https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/wxwidgets3.0-gtk3.html
> https://bugs.debian.org/894663
> 
> 5.0.1 is almost unusable if build with libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-dev and right
> now the KiCad package in testing would become RC if the transition to
> libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-{0v5,dev} would start.
> 
> And applications which using libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5 aren't usable under
> Wayland. It's all a mess.
> 
> I haven't build a recent devel version of KiCad against this GTK3+ based
> library of wxwidget3.0 so I can't say if the current HEAD would be
> better usable if linkend against libwxgtk3.0-gtk3-0v5.
> 
> Maybe Thomas P. has done this already?
> 

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