> Op 3 aug. 2022, om 06:24 heeft Loïc Bartoletti <[email protected]> > het volgende geschreven: > > Hi, > > Le 02/08/2022 à 10:57, Fernando Apesteguía a écrit : >> Op 2 aug. 2022, om 00:16 heeft Space Cadet <[email protected]> >> <mailto:[email protected]> het volgende geschreven: >>> >>>> Yes, I can do it. Have never done it before, please point me to guidance. >>>> Would the new port be called wx32-gtk3-3.1.5_2 ? >>>> >>> I reckon the name should reflect the latest version - something akin to >>> wx32-gtk3-3.2.0. >> There is the port and there is the package. The port should probably >> be just wxgtk32. But please, coordinate this with desktop@ since all >> wxgtk ports are maintained by them (except wxgtk28-contrib) > > Thanks to VVD, we're working on it > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=265093 > <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=265093> Excellent! Thank you VVD. >>> Perhaps one or more of the older ports should be deprecated or moved out >>> of the ports catalogue: >>> >>> wx28-gtk2-2.8.12_10 >>> wx30-gtk3-3.0.5.1_1 >>> wx31-gtk3-3.1.5_2 >>> >>> the 3.1.5 version was considered by the wx developers to be a development >>> port. The former stable port is 3.0.5, the stable one before that is 2.8, >>> referred to as “Ancient stable”, dates back to 2006/2011. >> There are some ports that still need older versions of wxwidgets. We >> would need to update them to newer versions of the toolkit or >> deprecate them as well. > > Some ports can't be updated to wx32 at the moment. But yes, the plan is to > deprecate wx31. We'll use wx30 and wx32. >
Since 3.2 is nearly 100% compatible with 3.0 and even 2.8, the moment has come for 3rd party packages to update as well, otherwise you’ll keep dragging a dependency chain for 15+ years. Thanks everyone, Ewout > Regards, > > Loïc >
