Re: FreeBSD Port: wx31-gtk3-3.1.5_2

From: Fernando_Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 08:57:07 UTC
On Tue, Aug 2, 2022 at 8:46 AM Ewout1 BlueTie/Excite
<ewout1@bluetiehome.com> wrote:
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> > Op 2 aug. 2022, om 00:16 heeft Space Cadet <tootall79@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
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> > Yes, I can do it.  Have never done it before, please point me to guidance.  Would the new port be called wx32-gtk3-3.1.5_2 ?
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> I reckon the name should reflect the latest version - something akin to wx32-gtk3-3.2.0.

There is the port and there is the package. The port should probably
be just wxgtk32. But please, coordinate this with desktop@ since all
wxgtk ports are maintained by them (except wxgtk28-contrib)

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> Perhaps one or more of the older ports  should be deprecated or moved out of the ports catalogue:
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> wx28-gtk2-2.8.12_10
> wx30-gtk3-3.0.5.1_1
> wx31-gtk3-3.1.5_2
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> the 3.1.5 version was considered by the wx developers to be a development port. The former stable port is 3.0.5, the stable one before that is 2.8, referred to as “Ancient stable”, dates back to 2006/2011.

There are some ports that still need older versions of wxwidgets. We
would need to update them to newer versions of the toolkit or
deprecate them as well.

Cheers.
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> With best regards,
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> Ewout Boks
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> > On Sun, Jul 31, 2022 at 11:58 AM Ewout1 (Excite/BlueTie) <ewout1@bluetiehome.com> wrote:
> > Hi FreeBSD port maintainer,
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> > This port has a recent major update available - first major update in 9 years to version 3.2. Would you be able to update the port?
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> > With best regards,
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> > Ewout Boks
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