Re: Observations on the 4.6rc1 windows package

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Monday, February 27, 2012 09:00:37 am pl...@pi... wrote:
> On 02/27/12 16:43, Peter Juhasz wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:31 PM,<pl...@pi...>  wrote:
> >> On 02/27/12 11:44, Peter Juhasz wrote:
> >>> Perhaps it would be illuminating to look at the changelogs of
> >>> wxWidgets to see what could possibly cause this effect, and also test
> >>> whether it appears on non-Windows platforms.
> >>
> >> using recent CVS and wxGTK-2.8.12.1 , not unusual slowness.
> >>
> >
> > Same for me, but it'd be interesting to upgrade wx* to 2.9.3 and
> > retry, as the problems on windows appeared with that version.
> >
> > P�ter Juh�sz
> >
> 
> sorry , not paying attention.
> 
> Gentoo throws this msg if I try to force that version.
> 
> # Ryan Hill <dir...@ge...> (22 Jan 2011)
> # Mask development versions due to unstable API
> # as requested by leio
> =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.9.1.1
> 
> I don't have much interest in screwing half my system and not getting 
> other things done while trying to patch it up again.
> 
> I already run "testing" profile, if this is not even in testing I guess 
> they know it really is still buggy still.
> 
> Peter.

Mojca Miklavec reported earlier that wxWidgets 2.9 has problems on OSX.

> from: Mojca Miklavec 01-Aug-2011
> > Anyhow, I take it the bottom line is that wxWidgets 2.8 does work,
> > but 2.9 does not?
> 
> True. I'm not sure what is wrong with 2.9, but it might also be a bug
> in their code, not just the need to rewrite the program. It would make
> a lot of sense to resolve such bugs before 3.0 is released, but I
> don't know how to create a minimal example to submit a bug report (if
> there is one).

The wxWidgets project documentation warns that 2.9 and 2.8 are not
100% compatible, although the only specific relevant examples that I
see there have to do with unicode characters and with wxString objects
in general.