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stmok

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-11-19

Posts: 72

Who do I need to contact the maintainer to get wxGTK updated?

Arch Linux currently uses wxGTK 2.6.x

The problem with this, is when you use aMule (Linux equivalent of Emule). Every time you close a search tab by clicking on an "x", it closes down the whole application! It also happens when you click on "Clear" to close all search tabs!

This is because (after looking through the aMule project forums), due to using wxGTK 2.6.x and lower. To resolve the issue, you need to compile aMule with wxGTK 2.8

Now when I look in the packages list on the Arch Linux website, it says the wxGTK 2.6.3-2 is This package has been flagged out-of-date. The maintainer is Tobias Kieslich.

How do I get into contact with him and get him to update the package?

Last edited by stmok (2007-02-19 05:13:06)

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twiistedkaos

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Registered: 2006-05-20

Posts: 666

Re: Who do I need to contact the maintainer to get wxGTK updated?

Hmm not personally sure. I know one step you could take, make your own package, submit it to  AUR and maybe one of the devs will take it and submit it to the extra repo.

ploxiln

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From: NYC, US

Registered: 2006-10-27

Posts: 51

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Re: Who do I need to contact the maintainer to get wxGTK updated?

Since the package has already been flagged, you would only be nagging him. You might try to modify his pkgbuild and build the newer version of the package yourself.

stmok

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2006-11-19

Posts: 72

Re: Who do I need to contact the maintainer to get wxGTK updated?

I guess I'll do that. Build my own based on the existing PKGBUILD file for 2.6.x
(I don't want to nag the heck out of a maintainer, as he/she may have their reasons for not updating)

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The most important thing the hacker community does is write better code. Our deeds are the best propaganda we have. -Eric S. Raymond

jotapesan

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From: chile

Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 27

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Re: Who do I need to contact the maintainer to get wxGTK updated?

i tried to compile with a modified version of cvs PKGBUILD. but it does not compile gtk1. no problem with the others. any ideas?

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.23 2006/09/27 15:28:18 ganja_guru Exp $
# Maintainer: tobias <tobias@archlinux.org>
# Original Contributor: Tom Newsom <Jeepster@gmx.co.uk>
# New 2.8 Version - Contributor: Juan Pablo Gonzalez T.  <lord_jotape@yahoo.com.ar>

pkgname=wxgtk
pkgver=2.8.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="wxGTK - GTK+ implementation of wxWidgets API for GUI"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
depends=('gtk2>=2.10.0' 'gtk' 'esd' 'expat>=2.0' 'mesa')
source=(http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxGTK-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
        wx-config)
url="http://wxwidgets.org"
md5sums=('9de30aeaad9bac6f8869907fa42fe950' '3d4f4ce95329ec657cfc925ba77adbcc')

build() {
  cd ${startdir}/src/wxGTK-${pkgver}

  mkdir ${startdir}/src/build_gtk{,2}

  cd ${startdir}/src/build_gtk2
  ../wxGTK-${pkgver}/configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk=2 --with-opengl || return 1
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1
  cd contrib/src
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1

        mkdir ${startdir}/src/build_unicode
        cd ${startdir}/src/build_unicode
  ../wxGTK-${pkgver}/configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk=2 --with-opengl --enable-unicode || return 1
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1
  cd contrib/src
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1

  #build with errors
  cd ${startdir}/src/build_gtk
  ../wxGTK-${pkgver}/configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk=1 --with-opengl || return 1
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1
  cd contrib/src
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install || return 1

  rm -f ${startdir}/pkg/usr/bin/wx-config
  install -D -m755 ${startdir}/wx-config ${startdir}/pkg/usr/bin/wx-config
}
# vim: ft=sh ts=2

Last edited by jotapesan (2007-02-20 01:33:12)

darzephyr

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From: Argentina

Registered: 2006-08-02

Posts: 43

Re: Who do I need to contact the maintainer to get wxGTK updated?

There are new official wxGtk 2.8 packages in EXTRA.
You need to uninstall my "wxgtk28" package first: otherwise you'll get file conflicts.
aMule in EXTRA now have wxgtk28 patch.

I'm removing my packages from AUR

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