Re: [wxhaskell-users] Is with-* reasonable for supporting wxWidgets contrib libraries? (Was: pinging wxhaskell...

[shelarcy <she...@gm...>]

Hi Jeremy,

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:42:26 +0900, Jeremy O'Donoghue <jer...@gm...> wrote:
> On 16/08/07, Eric Y. Kow <eri...@gm...> wrote:
>> > 2. Support contrib libraries in default configuration.
>> >     Merit
>> >     - The reverse side of 1.'s Demerit.
>> >     Demerit
>> >     - User must build and install contrib libraries, before building
>> >       wxHaskell. So they can meet building problem. But we can solve
>> >       it by updating building Guide (And I'm doing that).
>
> This really only works as an option if we decide that users must build
> wxWidgets from source *before* they can build wxHaskell.

Really?
I think that nowadays wxWidgets packager worried about wxPython.
And wxPython depends on contribs.

http://www.wxpython.org/builddoc.php


So macports' wxWidgets also support contribs.

http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/graphics/wxWidgets/Portfile
http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/python/py-wxpython/Portfile

And according to below Packages' information, libwxgtk-dev package depends
on wx-common package and wx-common replaces libwxgtk2.4-contrib-dev package.

http://apt.tt-solutions.com/debian/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages


So I want to know about wxWidgets package's condition.

> It's likely to be irritating to Linux users who are used to "apt-get
> install wxWidgets" as their usual approach to installing libraries.

Is this right?
Any packages system's wxWidgets doesn't have contrib? Or any package
system doesn't choose version that supports contrib?


Best Regards,

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