Everyone ready for wxGTK 2.6? [was Re: The future of wxGTK in Extras]

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 07:48:58PM +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > > > > What I wonder after reading this is: If GTK1.2 support will be
> > > > > dropped, what is supposed to happen to packages depending on the
> > > > > GKT1.2 part of wxGTK like amule (from livna)?
> > > Hm, what distro versions does such a largish change (dropping the GTK1
> > > bits) target? IMNSHO, it should be done only in devel.
> > Oh, definitely. This is too major of a change to drop on current releases.
> Good.  Just making sure because someone mentioned it being planned to go
> "in as an update".

If that was me, I apologize for being unclear. :) It's not a brand new
package, is what I might have meant.



> > Offhand, I know that audacity needs to be updated to the CVS version (ie
> > "1.3.0 beta"). It's been close to a year since the last audacity release,
> > unfortunately. (FWIW, the CVS version *requires* wxWidgets 2.6.)
> Ok.  In addition to the already mentioned packages, dvdstyler and vlc in
> Livna use wxWidgets too, dunno about their status wrt. 2.6.

Also, if I remember right, the audacity 1.2 issue isn't with GTK 1.2 vs 2,
but rather that it doesn't work at all with the new version no matter what.

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