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RFC: Dropping support for old wxWidgets releases (2.8 in particular)

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Pecan:
I support the drop of wx 2.8, and wx 3.0 .

oBFusCATed:

--- Quote from: stahta01 on August 01, 2019, 04:50:48 pm ---I do suggest keeping the core windows wx 3.0 projects;  CodeBlocks_wx30.cbp and CodeBlocks_wx30_64.cbp.
The windows wx 3.0 plugins projects make sense to delete.

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This doesn't make sense.


--- Quote from: stahta01 on August 01, 2019, 04:50:48 pm ---This way it will be easier for the few remaining Windows wx 3.0 self building to still build core CB.
And, we can always delete them later.

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Building another wx is not a rocket science it is just a download, unpack and run of a copy-pasted command from the wiki.

This doesn't seem like a valid reason to preserve the wx30 builds. A valid reason would be that something is broken with wx31 and only works in wx30. If this is the case then we can postpone the deletion. But I've not seen any indication that this is the case. We're shipping wx31 night builds for quite a while.

(I know that the pile of bug reports would start happening after we ship a wx31 release :))

sodev:
I am using wx-master for many years for all our (windows only) applications and this works quite well, nothing broke badly, sometimes i picked a commit that broke something, but usually this got fixed after a short time so i simply picked the fixed commit. On windows there is no such thing like a package repository, building wxWidgets from source is not that kind of big deal (it is self contained, no external dependencies), so you can easily use the source.

On linux it's a bit different, so if you want to provide packages, at least there stick to some release that is available in the repositories.

I don't use wx 2.8 since CodeBlocks got useable with wx 3.x, maybe soon i don't have to apply my patches to be able to use CodeBlocks with wx-master ;D

oBFusCATed:

--- Quote from: sodev on August 01, 2019, 08:04:58 pm ---...maybe soon i don't have to apply my patches to be able to use CodeBlocks with wx-master ;D

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Patches? To cb or wx? Anyway wx-master is only for testing...

sodev:
Patches for CB. Only two, around a month ago you and BlueHazzard looked at them again, you didn't like one of them because of the code duplication required to work with wx 2.8, and the other one... well, i guess no one was in the mood to try to understand the affected CodeBlocks parts to maybe agree with me that CodeBlocks does it wrong and wxWidgets refuses to compile with that for good reason :). And since then... silence again :-X.

My 5 years+ test run is quite successful so far, i get the latest and greatest stuff and don't have to work around bugs because i can simply upgrade 8)

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