Why was wxgtk removed?

Max Khon fjoe at samodelkin.net
Thu Jun 2 06:57:48 GMT 2005


Hi!

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 04:18:06PM -0400, Kris Kennaway 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.
> 
> OK, the responsible committer/maintainer will have to answer that.

Support for wxgtk1 has been removed (no ports in our tree use wxgtk1, well,
by default).
I did not saw reports about wxgtk2 instability.

/fjoe


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