[GRASS-user] Problem with GRASS 6.4RC6 and wxPython 2.8.11 on CentOS 5.5 x86_64

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Mathieu Baudier wrote:
>
>> We rely on the EPEL repository for many libraries and since their
>> upgrade of wxGTK / wxPython to 2.8.11 the wx UI of GRASS is broken.
>>
>> We get the stacktrace below:
>>
>> ...
>>   File "/usr/lib64/grass-6.4.0RC6/etc/wxpython/gui_modules/wxgui_utils.py",
>> line 73, in __init__
>>     super(LayerTree, self).__init__(parent, id, pos, size,
>> style=style, ctstyle=ctstyle)
>>   File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wx/lib/mixins/treemixin.py",
>> line 488, in __init__
>>     super(DragAndDrop, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
>> TypeError: __init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ctstyle'
>
> wxPython 2.8.11 isn't backwards compatible with 2.8.10. It has been
> discussed in slightly more detail here:
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2010-June/050766.html

Apparently the suggested fix in this email has not made it into SVN.

Would it cure the problem incl. a backport to 6.4?

Markus