Re: Packaging: wxWidgets 2.7

[Raphaël Enrici <blacknoz(at)club-internet(dot)fr>]

Dave Page wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raphaël Enrici [mailto:blacknoz(at)club-internet(dot)fr] 
> > Sent: 22 August 2006 14:07
> > To: Dave Page
> > Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org; Florian G. Pflug; Hiroshi Saito
> > Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Packaging: wxWidgets 2.7
> >
> > Would it be possible to wait a bit until I get an idea of Debian 
> > packaging plans from Ron please ?
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> Any news on that front? I need to commit code and freeze strings etc Real Soon Now.

Hi Dave,

was about to do an update concerning this. I got an answer from Ron. He 
may help with this if it becomes an issue for us (it seems to be the 
case now ;). So, I bet we can go on. However he would be interested in 
our feedback and the reasons why we swap to this version.

> > (I would not like to dive back into the nightmare of 
> > maintaining it by 
> > myself).
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> Unfortunately I think we might end up using 2.7 regardless of what Ron does, especially as Debian appears to be the only distro where this is even an issue. 
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> On the plus side, if we didn't use 2.7, we'd need to build a totally bespoke wxAUI package as opposed to a totally standard version of wx2.7. I note also that wx already have Ubuntu packages if that helps at all.
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> /D (feeling Raph's pain but having to consider the big picture :-( )

I hope this mail stopped this feeling ;)
Let's go! I'll try do my best.

Cheers,
Raph