Bug#751362: springlobby: Please update to wxwidgets3.0

[Markus Koschany]

On 12.06.2014 13:43, Olly Betts wrote:
[...]

> FWIW, most of the "assertion failed" messages are things which are just
> as much of an issue (or not) in wx2.8.  The difference is that wx3.0
> defaults to enabling "WXDEBUG" checks for incorrect API usage.  In wx2.8
> you had to rebuild wx with non-default options (or in Debian, install
> the libwxgtk2.8-dbg package) and then rebuild your app.  Without the
> assertions on, wx quietly tries to handle such cases (typically by just
> returning from the method in question).
> 
> These assertions can be disabled by defined NDEBUG when building the
> application - e.g. by adding -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS - which means such
> assertions will be handled as they would have been by a default build of
> 2.8.
> 
> So it's generally good to try to fix them, but if the app worked OK
> with wx2.8, just disabling them isn't an unreasonable solution.

Thanks for your explanations. I think this kind of solution is O.K. with
me as long as the application still works as intended. I have added
-DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS now, seems like this is going to work.

[...]
>> I am not sure if we can do a better job than upstream here but I am open
>> for any suggestions.
> 
> I suspect they have less experience with migrating things to wxwidgets3.0
> than I have now amassed.  I'm certainly OK with trying to help where I
> can.

I will do some testing tomorrow and try to figure out whether there is
still a real issue even after DEBUG has been disabled. If I can't find
anything else, I will upload a new revision which build-depends on wx3.0
again.

Regards,

Markus

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