Survex in debian testing now using wxwindows 2.6

[Philip Schuchardt]

You know that wxWidgets 3.0 isn't going to have an Ascii build / unicode 
build.  The wxWidget developers are throwing out Ascii / unicode structure 
and I think, it will have automatic conversion, between to two (ascii and 
unicode).  No more wxT() yea!!!  I think 3.0 will fix many of aven's problem 
automatically. 

Read more:
http://wxwidgets.blogspot.com/2007/11/looking-forward-to-wxwidgets-3.html

Philip Schuchardt

On Wednesday 12 March 2008 8:01 am, Wookey wrote:
> Debian will longer support wxwindows 2.4 in the forthcoming 'lenny'
> release. Survex has been staying with wx 2.4 until a pleasing solution
> to the issue of unicode strings and internationalisation support in
> Survex/wx was implemented. This was no longer possible in Debian, so
> Guillem Jover kindly implemented a simple veneer which translates
> all strings to/from survex<->wx-unicode. This is not how Olly wishes
> to address the problem in the medium term, but it does essentially work.
>
> See http://bugs.debian.org/462031 for a fuller explanation.
>
> Survex was temporarily removed from Debian, but is back in again with
> the new version as of yesterday.
>
> The net result of all this is that the Debian version of Aven is now
> significantly different from the normal survex.com version, so bear
> this in mind when making bug reports. Guillem's update was not
> perfect, and I fixed up a few more bits, but there may well still be
> bugs, especially in the wildcard searching code for highlighting
> station names (which becomes horrible when using mixed survex and wx
> strings).
>
> If you use it, please check out the new version and report problems,
> either here or via the debian bugreporting system.
>
> Having had a bit of a Debian caving package splurge (therion is
> updated to 0.5.1 too) I will now also try and get a survex 1.2 into
> experimental, which is something that should have been done a while
> ago. If there are other cave survey packages which people feel should
> be in Debian, then I'm happy to help make that happen (but probably
> only very slowly).
>
> Wookey
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