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Will patches to compile and link C::B against wxWidgets 2.7.1 be accepted?

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stahta01:
I am going to try to get codeblocks to compile and link using wxWidgets 2.7.1. If I am able to get it to compile and link, will you accept patches to do this? Or will you just reject them as not needed because 2.7.x in just a development branch? Note, I understand that my patches has to be well written and follow the guidelines. And, that the patches will have a very low priority of being applied. I just wish to make sure that it is worth my time to create the patches; if you plan to reject all patches for 2.7.x branches then it is not worth the effort to create them.

Tim S

Ceniza:
Well, if your patches don't break compatibility with 2.6.x, and don't cause any side effect in C::B, they could be considered and should ease the future transition to the next stable version of wx, but I cannot assure you anything.

Have in mind some problems compiling C::B with 2.7.x are in 3rd party libraries, so every time we get an updated version of those libraries the patches would need to be applied again till those libraries become compilable with 2.7.x. I think it's the biggest problem.

I don't know what the other devs think, but I would like to give it a try :)

mandrav:
Like Ceniza said, it depends on what the patches do. The top requirement is that it doesn't break 2.6 compatibility.
Another thing is the patch complexity. If it takes a complex patch to add 2.7 support, we might as well wait for the official 2.8. Because the 2.7 API *will* change until it becomes 2.8 and we 'd have to keep up with these changes all the time, with no good reason to.

afb:
One reason might be that wxExecute hangs on Mac OS X Intel
using wx 2.6.3, while it works just fine when using wx 2.7.1...
(this is the showstopper bug that makes wxMac useless on x86)
So I would very much welcome such a patch, at least to try it.

But you better hurry up, since wx 2.7.2 is just around the corner! :-)

killerbot:
I would wait, on the new wxWidgets blog, I could understand that wx 2.8 is very close !!
Maybe one or two more weeks. I would focus on that and hopefully it fixes a bunch of bugs and not introduce new ones.
That's what I don't like about wxWidgets, they don't fix the bugs easily (unicode wxString::<<  problems, the misaligned menus when a menu entry has an icon and so on :-( :-(  )

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