Re: wxgtk 3.3, wxpdfdoc, deskutils/treesheets: Unmaintained FreeBSD ports which are out of date
Rainer Hurling <[email protected]>
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Hi Nuno, Am 24.08.26 um 17:31 schrieb Nuno Teixeira: > Hello Marcin, > > I had a quick look at this one and this one should get wxgtk 3.3 > which is still being in the works https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ > show_bug.cgi?id=288467 <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ > show_bug.cgi?id=288467> > > It could also optionally use wxpdfdoc https://github.com/utelle/ > wxpdfdoc <https://github.com/utelle/wxpdfdoc> - anyone has any > experience > with it or tried porting it? I am not sure how that could be > integrated into > our ports tree. > > Thanks, > Marcin > > > Let me tell the short history behind treesheets and wx3.3. > > At a certain point I adopted treesheets and, if my memory is correct, I > did updated port dep from wx 3.0 to 3.2. > Laters, upstream "forced" treesheets to use the 3.3 rel and it motivated > me to start work on port wx3.3 (PR288467). > A few days later, upstream "forced" treesheets to use 3.2 again and that > represented that I lost the only consumer for wx3.3 branch. > > Among other things, I don't like the way upstream is doing things > related to wx detection and I quit maintaining port. > > wx3.3 port is staled and I need help working on that new port and need > consumers that can be tested against. math/saga is a potential consumer, which has several functionalities which would work better with wx3.3 than with wx3.2. The windows versions of SAGA are delivered with wx3.3 for several month now. You will find some more info in comments of bug https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=288467 ;) I am not a C/C++ coder, but let me know, if I can help. Best regards, Rainer > I don't know wxpdfdoc software and I can take a look laters. > If you think it is a good software to be added to portstree, feel free > to open a PR so I (or other committer) could take a look. > > Thanks, > > > > -- > Nuno Teixeira > FreeBSD UNIX: <[email protected]> Web: https://FreeBSD.org > <https://FreeBSD.org>