[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] minimal wxPython version

[Markus Metz]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 02:39:33PM +0100, Anna Kratochvílová wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to change minimal required version of wxPython [1].
>> Currently we support (theoretically) version 2.8.1.1 (released 2007).
>> I suggest to change it to 2.8.10.1 (2009), for example 2.8.10.1 was
>> shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The reason is obvious: wxGUI is limited
>> by this requirement. Even the 2.8.10.1 version is pretty old so I
>> think this won't hurt anybody. Any objections?
>
> epel 5 (add-on repository for rhel 5, the oldest still maintained rhel
> distribution) has 2.8.12.  I am not sure that more conservative
> repositories have this version, but at least it is available in one
> repository with a sufficiently high version.
>

Another old but still maintained repository, ports for FreeBSD 8.3,
has python 2.7 and wxpython 2.8.12. No objections.

Markus M