I think the note needs to add some instructions to check out the wxFB3.5-RC1 branch. The default 'master' is probably not something we want at this point in time.
- Cirilo On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:09 PM, Maciej Sumiński <[email protected]> wrote: > Wayne, > > I attach a patch updating the UI policy. I would rather you commit the > patch, to be sure you agree with the changes. > > Regards, > Orson > > On 09/03/2016 02:17 AM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: > > We've been dancing around this issue for a while without any real > > resolution. I'm fine with using Mark's version of wxFB but a lot folks > > are going to want to use whatever is packaged for their distro rather > > than build wxFB from source which presents a serious issue. I'm not > > sure there is a good answer for this problem. If no one else has any > > objections, I'm willing to make Mark's wxFB fork the official version > > for KiCad dialog submission for the time being. In the long run, if > > wxFB is not actively being developed, I would rather come up with an > > alternative. > > > > FWIW, I think most of you know how I feel about dialog creation tools > > vs. creating them programmatically. Kicad's dialogs used to be created > > this way but I got out voted at the time the decision was made to switch > > to wxFB. I'm feeling better about my choice all the time. ;) > > > > On 9/2/2016 7:11 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > >> I would vote in favor of using Mark's fork officially for everyone, if > >> it builds okay on all the platforms. wxfb is kinda nasty, if we're going > >> to use it it's nice to have our own fork that solves at least a few of > >> these issues. > >> > >> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 08:45:12AM +1000, Cirilo Bernardo wrote: > >>> I just use MRoszko's fork; it's cleaner than the original and much > >>> easier to configure and build since the bizarre wxFB build system > >>> had been eradicated and replaced by CMake. > >>> > >>> git clone https://github.com/marekr/wxFormBuilder.git wxfb > >>> cd wxfb && git checkout wxFB3.5-1 > >>> > >>> A half year or so ago I tried the later wxFB in development but it > >>> broke so many things that I just reverted the files and went back to > >>> wxFB3,5-1. > >>> > >>> - Cirilo > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Chris Pavlina <[email protected] > > > >>> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Along these lines: this isn't the first time wxfb version issues have > >>>> come up. Perhaps we should pick an "official" wxfb version for the > >>>> project to use, and then actually provide builds of it for developer > use > >>>> (as it can be a bit annoying to track down a specific version)? Then > we > >>>> can upgrade together as new versions come out. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 09:16:41AM +1200, Simon Wells wrote: > >>>>> dialog_pad_properties_base.fbp h cpp was last modified in commit > >>>>> > >>>>> 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213 > >>>>> https://git.launchpad.net/kicad/commit/?id= > >>>> 63decd70e6ab1bf2fe95db3f426f6cdfc79be213 > >>>>> > >>>>> the problem is this version of wxformbuilder is newer than the one > >>>>> available on sourceforge and it is very difficult to build on other > >>>>> platforms ( i tried a while ago and gave up as it had issues) > >>>>> > >>>>> the version that was used to save these files has broken it on older > >>>>> versions of wxformbuilder > >>>>> > >>>>> Is there a version of wxformbuilder that we should be using to avoid > >>>>> it breaking on other versions? > >>>>> > >>>>> the last available from sf.net is 3.5rc1 iirc > >>>>> > >>>>> thanks > >>>>> > >>>>> Simon > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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