Re: phase 2 of wxWidgets 2.9 build

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Peter Geoghegan
<peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm glad to see my work to date on wxWidgets 2.9 compatibility has
> been committed.
>
> We have 4 (and now, I think, 2) problems:

I like 2 best. Let's choose that one :-)

> 3. Linker problems on 2.9 + OGL as they exist on my system. I think
> these can be resolved by playing around with the OGL bakefile.
>
> 4. The OGL Problem itself. The task of talking to contributors and
> getting them to re-licence is ongoing. I suppose we'll have to
> integrate OGL, and build it as part of our own build system. Should I
> get started on this in anticipation of the re-licensing going ahead?
> It would be nice if our Makefile just invoked a separate
> makefile/build system for OGL, so OGL remained self-contained and
> could easily be used by third parties.

I think you should assume we'll go ahead. Every response so far has
been positive, including the leading contributor who is responsible
for 99% of the code.

I don't think we should spend time trying to separate the build. We're
not trying to maintain this for third party users - most of them will
find the published code usable. It's only a problem for those of us
with BSD style licences, and even they could just replace our
module.mk files with the equivalent for their projects in a matter of
minutes, much as we will replace the bakefile.

Will you use the code that Julian sent you, or stick with the original?

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