Re: WX Widgets Version

From: Richard PALO <richard(at)netbsd(dot)org>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Datatone Mail List <lists(at)datatone(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WX Widgets Version
Date: 2015-02-27 15:00:20
Message-ID: 54F08684.2080207@netbsd.org
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Le 26/02/15 17:47, Dave Page a écrit :
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Datatone Mail List
> <lists(at)datatone(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>> I have WX Widgets 3.0.2, which includes WX Widgets 2.8 compatibility.
>>
>> My PGAdmin3 compilation (configuration) fails with:
>>
>> configure: error: The version of wxWidgets required (2.8) is not supported by
>> the installations in /usr.
>>
>> My WX Widgets configuration is:
>>
>> ======
>> Configured wxWidgets 3.0.2 for `x86_64-dt-linux-gnu'
>>
>> Which GUI toolkit should wxWidgets use? GTK+ 2 with support
>> for GTK+ printing libnotify
>> Should wxWidgets be compiled into single library? no
>> Should wxWidgets be linked as a shared library? yes
>> Should wxWidgets support Unicode? yes (using wchar_t)
>> What level of wxWidgets compatibility should be enabled?
>> wxWidgets 2.6 no
>> wxWidgets 2.8 yes
>> Which libraries should wxWidgets use?
>> STL no
>> jpeg sys
>> png sys
>> regex builtin
>> tiff sys
>> zlib sys
>> expat sys
>> libmspack no
>> sdl no
>> =======
>>
>> So that you can see that wxWidgets 2.8 IS supported (as a compatibility mode).
>>
>> Is it the case that PGAdmin3 SHOULD compile and work with the latest WX
>> Widgets, provided that 2.8 compatibility is enabled?
>
> This has never been tested as far as I'm aware. It does work with 3.0
> in general, though there are a few glitches.
>
>> If so, is there a problem with the configuration that fails to detect this
>> support?
>
> The config script certainly doesn't know how to use 3.0 in 2.8
> compatibility mode.
>

I believe there are a few things to verify and test enabling this to be possible:
http://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/overview_changes_since28.html

It *would* be nice to migrate to the new wx Widgets code base, though.
- --
Richard PALO

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