The surface area of wxPython on KiCad critical functionality is fairly low. I would recommend moving forward and seeing what happens.
How long do we have to make this decision/recommendation? It seems easy enough to spot-check the most popular KiCad plugins that make use of wxPython to see if there are any obvious problems, if we know that's the goal. On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 11:31 AM Steven A. Falco <stevenfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/11/22 03:47 PM, Steven A. Falco wrote: > > > Ian proposed a workaround and that indeed fixes the crash. Details are > in the issue. > > > > Thanks Ian, for the speedy analysis and workaround. > > We have now been asked whether Fedora 37 should or should not switch to > wxPython 4.2.0. Currently, only Rawhide has it. > > As has already been mentioned, two versions of wxPython cannot coexist in > Fedora, so F37 will either have wxPython 4.0.7 or wxPython 4.2.0. > > On the pro side, it would be nice to get more testing on wxPython 4.2.0 > sooner, and it would let Fedora retire the older wxGTK3 sooner. > > On the con side, there may be more bugs lurking, which would require fixes > in the KiCad 6.x series. > > Fedora 37 will be released around 2022-10-25, and the F37 beta is expected > in mid-September, so unfortunately we cannot expect to have KiCad 7 in > F37. (As you may remember, while we have a policy exception permitting a > major version change of KiCad in a numbered Fedora release, we were advised > to use the exception only when necessary to fix critical/security bugs.) > > I'd personally prefer to have wxPython 4.2.0 in F37, but it is not my call > to make. Wayne, Ian, other lead devs, what say you? > > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "KiCad Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/df7c4eb7-9198-47e3-40f4-2f0e3178fa0a%40gmail.com > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KiCad Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to devlist+unsubscr...@kicad.org. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/kicad.org/d/msgid/devlist/CA%2BqGbCDbsqs0E6T5KM1YVj7OTZC3w3e2jH014zkRJObz%2Bx8xbw%40mail.gmail.com.
