compat-wxGTK-2.4.2

[Pascal]

Le Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:09:33 -0400,
"Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> a écrit :

> On Sat, 2008-04-19 at 13:12 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > But you could submit it to
> > fedora, if you are ready to do all the backporting of serious bugs,
> > especially security bugs.
> > 
> Actually, speaking as the former maintainer for compat-wxGTK-2.4*... I
> would really advise against it. In the wx space, this ancient piece of
> unmaintained junk conflicts heavily with the later wxGTK releases, to
> the point where you cannot effectively have the 2.4 compat package and
> any later wx packages on a system at the same time without both sets
> of wx dependent applications either failing to work entirely or
> randomly crashing.

Not good, even though I never found such problem.

> 
> Tell upstream for this proprietary bomb that 2003 has long since moved
> on, and they should port to either a more modern version of wx, or a
> different toolkit.
> 

Impossible.
This is an old fortran 77 / wxGTK software. It's barely alive and many
people need it including me :)

http://www.xtl.ox.ac.uk/crystals.html

Regards,
Pascal