On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Olly Betts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hmm, thanks for the info. I really thought the Debian guys had stopped >> unilaterally breaking wxWidgets like that (downstream patching used to >> cause other problems with Debian in years gone by). Reminds me of why >> I prefer Redhat. > > It's hardly unilateral - wxWidgets 2.9 has made exactly the same change. > So if you view it as "breaking wxWidgets", then it's only backporting > breakage from the next wx release series...
wxWidgets 2.9 is the development code for 3.0. The wx guys have changed a *lot* of the API there, and intentionally did it in the 2.9/master branch only to avoid breaking the stable 2.8 branch for existing apps - which is exactly what Debian has now done. Every wxWidgets developer is expecting to do work to support 2.9/3.0 in their apps - we've already made a lot of changes for example. They don't expect the downstream distros to cherry-pick changes and backport them into the stable versions however - if every distro did that, it would make it nigh-on impossible to support them. -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
