<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 9:05 AM <<a href="mailto:zxq9@zxq9.com">zxq9@zxq9.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 2019年6月27日木曜日 11時33分28秒 JST Dan Gudmundsson wrote:<br>
> Mostly bug-fixes nowadays, some new features are sneaked in here and there.<br>
> <br>
> We are still basing it on wxWidgets-2.8 API, but you should be able to use<br>
> anything from<br>
> wxWidgets 2.8.4 - 3.1.X (*) as a backend.<br>
> <br>
> (*) If you enable 2.8 compatibility when compiling wxWidgets 3.1.X<br>
> <br>
> But pull-requests are appreciated :-)<br>
<br>
Is 3.1 not as universally available as 2.8, or are we in "ain't<br>
broke, don't fix" mode in terms of forward migration?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>wxWidgets use even numbers as stable releases.</div><div>So 3.1 is not considered as a stable api, thus not available as pre-built packages</div><div>on many linux platforms.</div><div><br></div><div>The problem is that many bug-fixes are not backported to 3.0, (and there have not been one released for a while)</div><div>which causes some problems mostly on Mojave for instance.</div><div><br></div><div>The wx binding should be able to compile against either version, though I have not</div><div>added all new functionality in 3.0 and 3.1 releases.</div><div>Also, I use 2.8 api when generating the code, so it's hacky to add 3.0 and 3.1 functionality,</div><div>and I don't know how much work it will be to upgrade the code generator to be based on the new releases.</div><div><br></div><div>And we still have some old machines around which need wxWidgets 2.8 to be able to compile, sigh.</div><div><br></div><div>/dgud</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<br>
Just curious.<br>
I use wx all the time and am grateful to have a reliable GUI<br>
binding at all -- not all languages have something comparable<br>
built in to the distribution that actually works cross-platform.<br>
<br>
-Craig<br>
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