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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

3.1.x is essentially only available on the lesser-known distros and as
additional packages for OpenSUSE. Aside from that, most distros run
anything between 3.0.2 and 3.0.4. (see here:
https://repology.org/project/wxwidgets/versions).

-Ian



On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 7:52 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> On 7/4/19 8:54 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote:
> > On 01/07/2019 23:49, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> >> Hello Tomasz
> >>
> >> Do you have any comments on the wxwidgets version?
> >
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > I have 3.1.1 in my MSYS environment, probably manually built.
> >
> > We have two options:
> > - ask MSYS folks to update wxWidgets in the package repository,
> > - factor out stack trace implementation from newer wx version and
> > maintain it within kicad tree...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tom
> >
>
> AFAIK 3.1.1 (actually 3.1.2 is the latest development release) isn't
> readily available on most linux distros.  Do we really want to ship
> windows builds with 3.1.2 and linux builds with 3.0.4?  What does this
> mean in terms of crash reporter support not to mention any bugs
> introduced by the 3.1 branch of wxWidgets.  As much as I would hate to
> do it, we may have no choice but to factor out wxCrashReporter from the
> development branch of wxWidgets if we want to support it across all
> platforms.  Does wxCrashReporter in 3.0.4 have good enough linux support
> that it would make sense to create our own PKGBUILD for wxWidgets 3.1.2
> on msys2?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
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