Re: wxWindows2.5 and pgadmin

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:42:46PM +0100, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> we still need patches. There are 3 patches pending, as old as July :-(

Yes, recent events in wx space have done little to help that,
though I hope we are well past the worst of that now.

At least one of them I know was contentious, and though I didn't
look into it very deeply myself at the time, Vadim's argument about
not making localised fixes in many places did seem reasonably sound
to me at the time.

> There was quite some work done in wx, so I believe there might be some
> more patches necessary, or workarounds/modifications in the pgadmin3
> code. Unfortunately, those 3 patches are not circumventable unless a
> vast amount of code (e.g. all controls) is duplicated in pgadmin3 code.

Can we start with the simplest of them first and try to get consensus
on wx-dev to have them applied.  I'll be happy to actually get them
committed for you if you provide updated patches for current HEAD,
but I'm afraid you are going to have to 'run the gauntlet' in that
forum again first for all but the most obviously correct changes.

> I'm still completely unfamiliar with the new wx' bakefile stuff,
> hopefully we can integrate it smoothly into pgadmin3 as an embedded
> package.

I'm not sure what you mean by this.  Aside from being slower than the
old build system, you should be able to pretty safely ignore most of
what bakefile has changed.  For autoconf builds you might need to
tweak a couple of the options you pass to wx-config, but that should
be about it. (and that is more related to the new multiple lib format
than bakefile per se)

> As a vision (and to put some pressure on me), I'd like to have pgadmin3
> Debian-ready and showing on Linuxtag.

Cool.  I can't promise an easy passage through wx-dev, but it would be
nice to close this fork so I'll do what I can to help.

cheers,
Ron