[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] GRASS for Mac 64bit, wxPython 3, maybe fix for SIP problem - please test

[Michael Barton]

I am trimming off a lot of the past discussion for future conversations as Markus requested.

Michael
____________________
C. Michael Barton
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
Arizona State University

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> On Jun 5, 2016, at 4:08 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks. Looks interesting. But it also looks like it will take a complete rewrite of the GUI, at least to change all the class names, and probably to check the arguments.
> 
> No, it should be fairly compatible, the problem is as I wrote before
> one of the widgets important for wxGUI is not ported there yet.
> 
>> 
>> Michael
>> ____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC)
>> fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 5, 2016, at 10:54 AM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>> What is Phoenix?
>>> 
>>> That's a new version of wxPython, completely rewritten with support
>>> for Python3, basically the future of wxPython project.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Michael
>>>> ____________________
>>>> C. Michael Barton
>>>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>>> Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
>>>> Arizona State University
>>>> 
>>>> voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC)
>>>> fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>>>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 2, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks Helena,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I’m betting you have Anaconda on that laptop too.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The histogram issue requires a hack to plot.py in wxPython. I’ve done that in my system version but not in the Anaconda version yet. It is supposedly fixed in wxp 3.0.3.0, but that is not yet available except for those hardy, intrepid souls who want to compile it from scratch.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I actually compiled wxPython previously and recently Phoenix. It was
>>>>> not that difficult at all. But that was on Ubuntu.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was looking into the state of wxPython project. The 'classic'
>>>>> version is pretty much dead. Although wxWidgets 3.1.0 was released in
>>>>> February, there hasn't been any activity towards releasing new
>>>>> wxPython, and no response to this question on mailing list. That is
>>>>> unfortunate, considering that the new version would fix most problems
>>>>> we now have on Mac. That was my motivation to look at it, so that I
>>>>> don't spend time workarounding something when there is new version.
>>>>> But I wouldn't give up just yet, it might just take them longer time
>>>>> to release it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> What is good, that Phoenix is alive (should work with both Python 2
>>>>> and 3) and there might be a crowdsourcing campaign to fund the main
>>>>> guy to bring it to first release. I downloaded and compiled Phoenix
>>>>> (surprisingly easy) and the problem is that one of the widgets we use
>>>>> in Map Display is not ported, so there's no point in testing the rest.
>>>>> That might be fixed for the release, hopefully.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anna
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Michael
>>>>>> ____________________
>>>>>> C. Michael Barton
>>>>>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>>>>>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>>>>>> Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science
>>>>>> Arizona State University
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC)
>>>>>> fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>>>>>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>>>>>>