[GRASS-dev] [release planning] 7.4.1

[Moritz Lennert]

On 30/04/18 00:03, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 8:41 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> The broken digitizer appears to be a consequence of moving Mac compiling to wxPython 3 from the old wxPython 2.8 that Linux and (I think) Windows still use (wxPython 4 is now the current version and the digitizer is broken in that version too).
> 
> It got released earlier this year: 2018-01-31
> https://wxpython.org/news/wxpython-4.0.0-release/index.html
> 
> That means it will take time yet to reach all the various distros.
> 
>> Note that wxPython 2.8 is 32 bit and most of the rest of GRASS is now 64 bit.
> 
> ... on Mac OS X.
> 
>> Unless someone has tried new wxPython with GRASS on another platform, there is a reasonable chance that this same bug will crop up elsewhere. It also looks like it may be the same bug that crashes interactive imagery classifier interface.
> 
> Right but so far there are no(t too many) production ready distros
> shipping wxPython 4 (I checked Fedora and Debian).

It is in Debian testing [1], so will (normally) be in next Debian stable.

But IIUC, the crash in MacOSX is not due to wxPython 4, but rather to 
wxPython 3 (which is already in Debian stable). Michael, do I understand 
this correctly ? Is there a bug report with a reproducible example 
somewhere ?


Moritz

[1] https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/wxpython4.0