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

[Ville Skyttä]

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 18:11 +0100, Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 17:40 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 10:24 -0500 schrieb Matthew Miller:
> > > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 08:16:49PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > > > On 11/3/05, Gérard Milmeister <gemi at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > > > > What are the plans for wxGTK(2) in Extras?
> > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154618
> > 
> > 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.

> Maybe we should compile a list of packages using wxGTK,

$ repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps wxGTK wxGTK2 wxPythonGTK2 | grep -v ^wx
bochs-0:2.2-2.i386
bochs-0:2.2.1-1.fc4.i386
audacity-0:1.2.3-5.i386
scorched3d-0:37.2-2.i386
pgadmin3-0:1.0.2-5.i386
comical-0:0.4-9.fc4.i386

> and try to build
> them against 2.6.2. I too fear that some only compile with 2.4.2 at
> the moment. In that case, a parallel install of both versions might
> be necessary for a while.

Or just do the 2.6.x update in devel, and try to sort things out before
FC5 and avoid the compat packages altogether.