On 2015-09-13 21:25+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > [...]wxWidgets 3.0 has been around nearly two years and the > "development precursor" wxWidgets 2.9 has been around 5 years. So > maybe it is a good time to move up.
Yeah, I think bumping our minimum wxwidgets version to 3.0.0 (which I have actually done already, see commit b4245b3f) was the best decision. It is extra work to support multiple versions of PLplot prerequisites so the rule of thumb I normally use for such decisions is we support only the latest version that appears in Debian stable (wxwidgets-3.0.x in this case). Debian stable is fairly conservative about adopting new versions so the latest version of any software in that distro is likely to be available in Cygwin, MinGW-w64/MSYS2, and all major modern Linux distros. For example, it turns out that both Cygwin and MinGW-w64/MSYS2 provide wxwidgets-3.0.x packages. From previous experience, I am sure modern versions of Ubuntu and other Debian derivatives, Fedora, and openSUSE will also provide wxwidgets-3.0.0 or later. The above rule of thumb typically does not work for the so-called enterprise class Linux distros such as RedHat (and its derivatives like CentOS and Scientific Linux) which go out of their way to avoid modern versions of software packages. But users of such distros are likely well aware of that limitation for them and will either use old PLplot versions or build the modern Linux packages they need (e.g., with epa_build) which are prerequisites for their build of the latest PLplot. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
