F22 System Wide Change: wxPython 3

[Scott Talbert]

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.

Okay, that's what I'll plan to do then, unless there are major objections. 
I'll probably need a bit of help from the package maintainers, though, as 
I'm sure I won't be able to figure out how to fully test all of the 
dependent packages.

Thanks,
Scott