wxWidgets-devel out of date (2007-01-29), no longer works

[mdickens@…]

The nightly snapshots for wxWidgets-devel goes back only 7 days, and thus 2007-01-29 is no longer available. Using nightly snapshots is dangerous, even if it's the only thing that works, since those snapshots are such short lived. It's (almost) trivial to change the Portfile to work properly, just by updating the date ... but how many "casual" users will really be able to do this? Is there any way to put "$today" (or something along those lines) into the Portfile in place of a hard date, so that the snapshot will always be available?

[yaseppochi (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

Unfortunately, it's NOT trivial, since the wxWidgets version number got bumped, and the wxPython port at least insists on having the exact same version (MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO) as wxWidgets.

[mdickens@…]

My point in the "(almost) trivial" was in reference to the Portfile itself, not to any other aspect of any other requirements. At least in my testing thus far, the 2 changes needed for any given snapshot are (1) the release date, and (2) the checksum. Otherwise, most snapshots compile cleanly and those I've actually used seemed to function properly.

I can accept the (MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO) argument. But, now, since wxPython is at version 2.8.1.x in MacPorts, but there is no formal release of wxWidgets at 2.8.1.x - only snapshots -, and assuming that wxPython stays at version 2.8.1.x, how are wxWidgets updates going to happen so that this package continues to be available? This has the potential to be a blocker for the "average" user, if the Portfile gets out of date (1 week).

[mdickens@…]

As per ticket:11363, the versioning is messed up again (it worked for most of January). This is serious.

[markd@…]

Assign to maintainer.

[jyrkiwahlstedt]

fixed in r24099