From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 10 14:49:01 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E95316A417 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:49:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LukeD@pobox.com) Received: from sceptre.pobox.com (sceptre.pobox.com [207.106.133.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E8B13C465 for ; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:49:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from LukeD@pobox.com) Received: from sceptre (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sceptre.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62202F0; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:49:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from border.crystalsphere.multiverse (pool-71-113-69-210.sttlwa.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.113.69.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EED57D3A2; Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:49:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:48:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Luke Dean X-X-Sender: lukas@border.crystalsphere.multiverse To: Martin Tournoij In-Reply-To: <20070910074913.GA43990@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> Message-ID: <20070910072018.M5313@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> References: <20070909154811.B2084@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <20070910012811.GA42413@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> <20070909214729.W3201@border.crystalsphere.multiverse> <20070910074913.GA43990@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: neal@nelson.name, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wxPython 2.8? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Luke Dean List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:49:01 -0000 On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote: > On Sun 09 Sep 2007 21:09, Luke Dean wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote: >> >>> On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote: >>>> >>>> I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8. >>>> The ports collection only has 2.6. >>>> Do you think it would it be worthwhile for me to download the source and attempt to compile it on my system or should I ask the port >>>> maintainer? >>> >>> wxgtk 2.8 is in the ports collection(x11/toolkits/wxgtk28), you're >>> probably using an outdated snapshot of the ports collection. >>> See the FreeBSD handbook on how to update your ports collection: >>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html >> >> I guess I don't understand the relationship between wxPython and wxgtk. >> wxPython 2.6 builds with wxgtk 2.6 by default. If it works with wxgtk >> 2.8, maybe that's what I need. I'll give it a shot. Thanks. > > Ignore my previous post, it was late and I thought you couldn't find > wxgtk2.8, I kind of missed the wxPython part ... :/ > My fault, I'm sorry. > > I've cc-ed this email to the maintainer of py-wxPython26, I will look into > creating a port for py-wxPython28 later today. > > Regards, > Martin Tournoij Thank you! After I read a bit more about what wxPython really is, I realized that wxPython and wxgtk should be at the same version. In the spirit of open source, I attempted this myself. I installed wxgtk 2.8 from ports, then fetched the wxPython 2.8 source and attempted to port it following the example of the wxPython 2.6 makefile, but I got compillation errors early in the process in some gtk code. This made me think that perhaps the wxPython source I fetched might not be compatible with the wxgtk source I got from the ports system. I believe these versions are under development, so I suppose they change frequently and it may be difficult to get them to match up. Or maybe I really don't know what I'm doing. I've never attempted to port anything as complex as a toolkit before.