From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 14:33:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5681E16A41C; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:33:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from craig@yekse.gank.org) Received: from ion.gank.org (ion.gank.org [69.55.238.164]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BB8743D53; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 14:33:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from craig@yekse.gank.org) Received: by ion.gank.org (mail, from userid 1001) id A75CA2D00A; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:33:56 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:33:52 -0500 From: Craig Boston To: Kris Kennaway Message-ID: <20050601143351.GA59325@nowhere> Mail-Followup-To: Craig Boston , Kris Kennaway , ports@freebsd.org, fjoe@FreeBSD.org References: <20050531175246.GA55256@nowhere> <20050531224841.GB33258@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050531224841.GB33258@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: ports@freebsd.org, fjoe@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why was wxgtk removed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:33:57 -0000 On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 03:48:41PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 12:52:46PM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > > What happened to the wxgtk port? I was just about to update the > > Audacity port to use the GTK1 version of wxgtk as it seems to be a lot > > more stable, but it's been removed. > > Check the CVS commit logs. Well, okay, that was the first thing I did, but here we go: ------------------ CVS log for ports/x11-toolkits/wxgtk/Attic/Makefile Changes since 1.47: +1 -1 lines FILE REMOVED Finish repo copy of wxgtk 2.4.2 ports to wxgtk24* ------------------- Following that chain: ------------------ CVS log for ports/x11-toolkits/wxgtk24/Makefile Changes since 1.47: +6 -48 lines Finish repo copy of wxgtk 2.4.2 ports to wxgtk24* ------------------- Unless I'm missing something, that doesn't really explain why pre-repo-copy wxgtk ports supported both GTK1 and GTK2, but post-repo-copy the GTK1 support has been removed. Yes, I know that GTK1 is considered obsolete, but unfortunately not all outside software has caught up (and GTK 1.2 _is_ still in the ports tree). Before you ask, Audacity has been promising full GTK2 support for quite a while now, but it still hasn't happened. As it is, it _sort of_ works but isn't really stable (try double-clicking on the track menu a few times quickly and enjoy the nice sig11). The sad part of it all is that wx is SUPPOSED to be toolkit-independent. I'm more than willing to do the work of putting together a wx/GTK1 slave port if it would be accepted. However if there was a good reason it was removed I don't want to step on anybody's toes... Thanks, Craig