On 11/11/2013 03:06 PM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 02:33:41PM -0600, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>> When running wxpython, you no longer have the freedom to use a self built wx 
>> on linux,
>> because wxpython has made that choice for you.  wxpython's and kicad's use 
>> of python have
> 
> Not necessarily, you can build wxpython with another (newer) wxwidget.
> It's not trivial not recommended, anyway:P
> 
>> to be the same, and wxpython's and kicad's use of wxWidgets have to be the 
>> same, namely
>> the distro's choice, and that is currently wx 2.8.x not 2.9 or 3.0.
> 
> Unless you statically link, which would be a mess...
> 
> I agree, it's not an easy situation, unless you have everything built
> from 2.9 (like I have, but I'm a LFS user, not a distro one)
> 


Gosh, that was an exceedingly useful posting.



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