#1090963 libwx-perl: wxPerl fork (3.004) available

Package:
libwx-perl
Source:
libwx-perl
Description:
interface to wxWidgets cross-platform GUI toolkit
Submitter:
Roland Rosenfeld
Date:
2024-12-22 08:45:01 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1090963#5
Date:
2024-12-21 10:25:10 UTC
From:
To:
I just want to document that there exists a fork of the original
wxPerl: https://github.com/sciurius/wxPerl

The development of the original version 0.9932 from
https://sourceforge.net/p/wxperl/code/HEAD/tree/ seems to be frozen
since 2017-04-29, while the fork starts with some SVN checkin (0.9932
plus some more patches of the original author) and adds several
patches to this (including Debian and Fedora patches).

I asked the author of the fork about maintaining it for CPAN, but he
restrains (see
https://github.com/ChordPro/chordpro/issues/483#issuecomment-2557677159)

Anyway, we should consider using his fork as a new base of libwx-perl
instead of the 7 year old "official" CPAN version.

Greetings
Roland

#1090963#10
Date:
2024-12-22 08:33:05 UTC
From:
To:
In the meantime I found some more information about the fork:
- An announcement of the fork:
https://dev.to/sciurius/wxperl-revival-5fde
- A mailing list about wxPerl:
https://lists.perl.org/list/wxperl-users.html
- A (closed) github issue about (not) taking over CPAN maintainership:
https://github.com/sciurius/wxPerl/issues/1

I did a little test build with the fork and noted, that only
gtk3.patch, wxWidgets_3.2_MakeMaker.patch, and
wxWidgets_3.2_port.patch seem to be already in the fork, while the
other patches still apply (didn't check which are really required or
necessary anymore).

Greetings
Roland