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

[oBFusCATed]

The ball is rolling https://github.com/obfuscated/codeblocks_sf/commits/experiments/wx-cleanup
The removal of support for wx28 would be committed sometime next week. I'm testing linux and macOS. No time to check if windows is working, so I'll need help if you want the builds to be working for sure on windows.

Removal plans include:
1. remove all wx28 projects
2. remove all wx30 projects on windows (32 and 64 bit)
3. remove wxpropgrid we use in wx28
4. remove wxTreeList we ship in wx28
5. fix autotools build
6. make it an error if using older versions of wx.

After this is committed to trunk there are two more steps:
step2: remove all conditionals for wx2.8/2.9
step3: remove all wxT uses

Reporting problems now is better then after I commit.

[stahta01]

Would it be possible to remove all the 2.8/2.6 wxWidgets template files at this time.

Under these paths

src/templates/common
src/templates/unix
src/templates/win32

Tim S.

[oBFusCATed]

It was not in my plans. Someone would have to contribute these. Especially the changes to the windows' templates.

[oBFusCATed]

Any feedback on the windows builds? Is everything working?

[BlueHazzard]

Looks good to me

[Hyena]

I had a crash yesterday with the 20.03 running on Linux Mint. I didn't lose any important work because I save often . Unfortunately there was no error message or anything specific about the crash. I was just starting to define a new struct in one header file and it crashed. Could not reproduce.

[oBFusCATed]

Great report... in the correct topic... thank you 

[oBFusCATed]

wx28 support is removed from trunk/master. The code would build if you restore the project files and remove the protections, but this would soon change...

[Miguel Gimenez]

Should batch_build_all_30.bat and the like be removed too?

[stahta01]

Did not know that you were changing prep.h to require wxWidgets 3.1.3 or higher under windows?

This was on purpose, correct?

Tim S.

[oBFusCATed]

@Miguel: Yes, they have to be removed. I'll do so soon.

@stahta01: Of course. You could remove it, but don't expect to get any kind of support.