Re: why the switch to wxWindows 2.5?

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:13:55 -0500 Brian Sammon <[email protected]> wrote:

BS> Is there an explanation posted somewhere of why the developers decided
BS> to move mahogany development to the beta release of wxWindows?

 No, but it's really very simple: some new features need support present
only in 2.5.

BS> As someone who is very reluctant to switch to a beta version of
BS> wxWindows

 You can perfectly well have 2.5 alongside with 2.4. In fact, I still have
all of 2.2, 2.4 and 2.5 installed here.

BS> This is a major change.  I think this merits a larger change in the
BS> version number and mention on the website (which would have saved me
BS> the wasted time of downloading a 3 MB file I won't use)

 Here is how you can use it without doing anything to your existing 2.4
installation (I assume you're using wxGTK under Unix):

1. download wxGTK 2.5 or get it from the cvs and put it in, say,
   /usr/local/src/wxWindows
2. cd /usr/local/src/wxWindows; mkdir gtk; cd gtk
3. ../configure --whatever-options-you-need-but-usually-nothing
4. make but do *not* make install
5. cd /usr/local/src/mahogany-0.66; mkdir gtk; cd gtk
6. ../configure --with-wxdir=/usr/local/src/wxWindows/gtk
7. make && make install as usual

 If you experience any problems you should rebuild with debug, that is use
the following steps instead:

2'. mkdir gtk-debug; cd gtk-debug
3'. ../configure --enable-debug
...
5'. mkdir gtk-debug; cd gtk-debug
6'. ../configure --with-wxdir=/usr/local/src/wxWindows/gtk-debug --enable-debug

 HTH,
VZ



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