Обсуждение: FW: Autoconf Work

Ooops, missed the list...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Page
> Sent: 10 May 2003 00:37
> To: Adam H. Pendleton; Dave Page
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Autoconf Work
>
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> I think the patch and a note in our docs explaining how to
> fix the problem until wxWindows is fixed. We cannot
> distribute the file because it's LGPL which isn't compatible
> with pgAdmin's licence.
>
> Regards, Dave
>
> _____________Original message ____________
> Subject:    Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Autoconf Work
> Sender:    "Adam H. Pendleton" <fmonkey@fmonkey.net>
> Date:        Fri,  9 May 2003 23:32:22 +0000
>
> Andreas Pflug wrote:
>
> > So at the moment, we either need wxWindows 2.4.0 from source or the
> > additional file. How about checking this file in autoconf
> and copying
> > it into place if missing?
>
> I sent a message in reply directly to Andreas, but I thought I would
> send one to the list as well.  gridsel.h is included with the
> wxWindows
> 2.4.0 source distribution, but it is *not* installed by the 'make
> install' command.  IMO, this leaves us the following options
> regarding
> fixing the problem with autoconf:
>
> 1) Use an configure option to point to a wxWindows source tree
> location.  Autoconf can then include that file when building
> pgadmin3.
> This means that pgadmin3 will not compile against a binary
> distribution
> of wxWindows, though.
>
> 2) Provide a patch for the wxWindows source distribution to
> install the
> gridsel.h file.  This would not require autconf to do any special
> checks, but once again, pgadmin3 won't build against a binary
> wxWindows
> distribution.
>
> 3) Include the file with the pgadmin3 sources.  I realize
> that gridsel.h
> isn't part of the pgadmin3 code base, per se, but this options allows
> building against binary wxWindows distributions, as well as not
> requiring autoconf to do any special checking for the file.
>
> What is the consensus?
>
> ahp
>
>
>
>

Dave Page wrote:

>>I think the patch and a note in our docs explaining how to
>>fix the problem until wxWindows is fixed. We cannot
>>distribute the file because it's LGPL which isn't compatible
>>with pgAdmin's licence.
>>
>>
>>
I could create a dummy gridsel.h including the class wxGridSelection,
having placeholder variables so the object included in wxGrid can be
deleted when SetTable() is used to rescan the grid. This should avoid
license problems, I think.

Regards,
Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:Andreas.Pflug@web.de]
> Sent: 10 May 2003 00:14
> To: Dave Page; pgadmin-hackers@postgresql.org; Adam H. Pendleton
> Subject: Re: FW: [pgadmin-hackers] Autoconf Work
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
>
> >>I think the patch and a note in our docs explaining how to
> >>fix the problem until wxWindows is fixed. We cannot
> >>distribute the file because it's LGPL which isn't compatible
> >>with pgAdmin's licence.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> I could create a dummy gridsel.h including the class wxGridSelection,
> having placeholder variables so the object included in wxGrid can be
> deleted when SetTable() is used to rescan the grid. This should avoid
> license problems, I think.

OK, but I think the problem should still be fixed properly in the
longterm.

Of course, you won't look at the original file will you?

:-)

Regards, Dave.