Re: [Gnumed-devel] Opening the debate re moving to 2.6 again

[Sebastian Hilbert]

On Monday 05 September 2005 09:57, Richard Terry wrote:
> I suspect it is not as difficult as that. Ask Horst - Horst are you there
> to comment as I'm sure he is on Debian and using 2.6.
If there are debs out there maybe Karsten can make a decision based on that 
fact. If not tough luck. Horst indicates that 2.6 is available. Well it's 
Karsten's decision if he want to make the move on his system or not.

> I've compiled 2.6 
> from source a number of times myself.
You are lucky. But you are on 2.6 anyway :-)

> If 2.4 gets broken in the process I 
> don't think it matters as by the time gnuMed is clinically useable 2.4
> won't be available!
Whoa Richard ! Hold it. Again. If you believe it or not we actually use it 
already for some tasks. As far as I and Karsten are concerned we do not 
follow the development model which first "finishes" GNUmed before we use it. 
Given current resources  that would mean we cannot use GNUmed for many years. 
Guess that is part of the reason why Horst wrote mini-gnumed.
>
> Yes we can do it file by file, however there are real advantages to
> gui-design by using 2.6 - lots of the 2.4 gui-bugs have disappeared.
I agree. Partly. Well. Right now the bugs *seem* to be in 2.6 since the code 
is written for 2.4. If we switch to 2.6 the bugs would *seem* to be in 2.4

To be honest I don't know how to handle this.
I currently fail to compile 2.6 on my system due to a gcc3  problem.
2.5.3 has some bugs but there is little I can do about this.

Don't wait for me though. If you Debian guys move then do it. Next SUSE 
version will have or I will switch to Debian.

I tend to forget issues but right now seems to be a good time to make the 
switch. I might be wrong.

I just heard that Andreas is working on those Debian packages. Hope this 
doesn't present a problem for him/his packages.

Sebastian
>
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005 04:45 pm, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
> > On Monday 05 September 2005 05:09, Richard Terry wrote:
> > > Yes I'm a pest.
> > >
> > > As most distributings are coming supplied with wxPython2.6 now, I
> > > really think we should debate biting the bullet and upgrading the code
> > > to make it 2.6 compatible. I'm more than prepared to help with this.
> > >
> > > Can we debate this again? It would certainly make migrating to an
> > > improved gui easier.
> > >
> > > Richard
> >
> > Here are the facts.
> > SUSE wxpython 2.5.3, no updated available, 2.6.1 does not easily compile
> > Debian Sarge, Sid wxpython 2.4 ,
> >
> > My opinion. Code is mostly fit for 2.6. We cannot move to 2.6 entirely if
> > it breaks 2.4.
> >
> > Lets discuss this file by file. If you find something, suggest a change
> > and we will test it.
> >
> > Sebastian

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