As we approach the v5 stable release, I want to discuss a something we should seriously consider before we open the flood gates for new feature merges after the v5 branch. We are currently in an awkward position with regards to gtk3 builds on Linux. Given that most distros are now building wx against gtk3, we really should work towards fixing this at the beginning of v6 and back porting it as soon as possible so that we can better support the current Linux distros. Fortunately, most distros have thankfully provided a gtk2 build version of wx in order to build kicad. However, they have not done the same thing for wxpython so for most new distro releases, we have to build kicad without wxpython support. I propose we spend some time immediately after the v5 release and fix the gtk3 issues before we start making major changes to the code base so that it is not difficult to back port. Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Cheers, Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
