F22 System Wide Change: wxPython 3

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

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