Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 09:33:52 -0500 From: Craig Boston <craig@yekse.gank.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, fjoe@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why was wxgtk removed? Message-ID: <20050601143351.GA59325@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20050531224841.GB33258@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050531175246.GA55256@nowhere> <20050531224841.GB33258@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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
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