Re: wxt on mac: error report

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 21:19, sfeam (Ethan Merritt) wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 July 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
> getcolor needs to be built twice, once for inclusion in gnuplot proper
> and once for inclusion in gnuplot_x11.   From the error messages you
> show, it looks to me that one of the two versions either was not built
> at all or was built in the wrong order.

It seems that I forgot to clean some parts before making them again.
Compilation now works fine with both terminals (but I still didn't
test anything). Sorry for the noise.

>> But I would strongly suggest to try to make gnuplot work with
>> wxWidgets 2.9.
>
> From the wxWidgets web site:
>    wxWidgets 2.9.2 Released 2011-07-05
>   "While this is still officially a development release because
>    some API details are still not frozen, we believe that 2.9.2
>    can be used in production environment, especially for the new
>    projects for which (small) changes in behaviour since 2.8 are
>    not a problem. Give it a try and let us know what do you think!"
>
> There is also a Change Log with a fairly long list of things that
> need to be changed in the calling program to switch from 2.8 to 2.9
> (actually it says 3.0, which is kind of confusing).

The version 2.9 will become 3.0 once it gets out of testing phase
which should be by the end of 2011.

It also says:

Next development release: 2.9.3
The next planned release is 2.9.3 and is planned to happen in the
autumn of 2011. It should integrate the work done during GSoC 2011 and
will be the final 2.9.x release before 3.0.

We hope to make 3.0 at the end of 2011.


The only remaining issues are:
- Cocoa-based wxOSX port running in 64 bit mode: testing and final touches
- GTK+ 3 port: in progress as part of GSoC 2011: which means that it
has to be finished in August


> So I think 2.9 is not yet ready for prime time, and trying to
> debug a 2.9 installation when you don't even have 2.8 working
> sounds like a difficult task.

But also keep in mind that on Mac I can only use fully outdated and
unsupported framework that 2.8 depends upon. The bugs that enable
building 2.8 have recently been fixed in MacPorts, but I'm still
unable to build wxWidgets on my local machine.

Maybe the next gnuplot release could depend on 2.8, but it would be
great if CVS version could start supporting 2.9, so that if any bugs
in wxWidgets are discovered, they can be reported upstream, but also
to get enough testing in time for the second gnuplot release from now
on.

Mojca