On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 08:16:14PM -0500, Scott Talbert wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2014, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > >>>>The plan is to make wxPython 3.0 > >>>>co-installable with wxPython 2.8, similarly to what has been done with the > >>>>wxWidgets packages (wxGTK and wxGTK3). > >>>What are the issues involved in updating everybody to wxPython 3.0? > >> > >>It is certainly doable. Debian did it recently in Jessie, so we can > >>probably look there to see which packages needed patching. The main > >>difference is that they are still using the GTK2 implementation. > >>Upstream wxPython only recently enabled the GTK3 implementation, so > >>I'm a little worried that we may come across some bugs. > >> > >>Are you thinking that we should just go for it and upgrade everybody? > >I really don't know. That's why I was asking. > > > >Making them parallel installable is the kind of work which generates more > >work later on. I think it might be worthwhile to put the new version > >in a buildroot override and rebuild the dependent packages and see what > >falls out. It might be less work to fix the few problematic packages. > > Well, none of the dependent packages should need to be rebuilt. > Instead, we would need to build the new wxPython and then test each > dependent package to see if anything breaks. That is certainly > doable though. That's even better. repoquery tells me that there are 35 packages requiring wxPython. This seems like a managable number to test, even for one or two people. Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
