wxPython 2.8?

[Luke Dean]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Neal Nelson wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 09:49 +0200, Martin Tournoij wrote:
>> On Sun 09 Sep 2007 21:09, Luke Dean wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun 09 Sep 2007 15:09, Luke Dean wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a Python app that seems to require wxPython 2.8.
>>>>> The ports collection only has 2.6.
>>>>> Do you think it would it be worthwhile for me to download the source and attempt to compile it on my system or should I ask the port
>>>>> maintainer?
>>>>
>>>> wxgtk 2.8 is in the ports collection(x11/toolkits/wxgtk28), you're
>>>> probably using an outdated snapshot of the ports collection.
>>>> See the FreeBSD handbook on how to update your ports collection:
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html
>>>
>>> I guess I don't understand the relationship between wxPython and wxgtk.
>>> wxPython 2.6 builds with wxgtk 2.6 by default.  If it works with wxgtk
>>> 2.8, maybe that's what I need.  I'll give it a shot.  Thanks.
>>
>> Ignore my previous post, it was late and I thought you couldn't find
>> wxgtk2.8, I kind of missed the wxPython part ... :/
>> My fault, I'm sorry.
>>
>> I've cc-ed this email to the maintainer of py-wxPython26, I will look into
>> creating a port for py-wxPython28 later today.
>
> I have already submitted a port for wxPython 2.8 some weeks ago but for
> some reason it's languishing in the pr database. So if you want the port
> badly, hassle some committer to get it committed.
>
> For your reference the relevant PRs are: 115349 for the base port,
> 115350 for the common parts and 115351 for the unicode port.
>
> Regards,
>
> Neal.

Ah, I didn't think to search for PRs.  I should've looked there.
I will try to check this out tonight and pass along any feedback I can 
give. 
Thank you for your work!