On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:29:57 +0200, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Jona Joachim wrote:
> 
>> I corrected some stuff. The port should now build and install correctly.
>> 
>> Here is a gzipped tarball of the port: http://webplaza.pt.lu/~mpjjjjsj/files/wxd.tar.gz
> 
> Thanks for the files. The patches and the workarounds should not be needed with wxD 0.08 (wonder about the DESTDIR changes though, those shouldn't really be necessary, will have to investigate it)

There was a big discussion recently about the implementation of DESTDIR on the FreeBSD ports mailing list. The current implementation is problematic in some situations [1] and it's not trivial to implement it right. Contributors were told to wait a bit until they make their ports DESTDIR aware [2].

I have one more question concerning unicode support in wxWidgets/wxD. When
I built the wxD samples using the non-unicode version of wxWidgets I got
errors concerning encoding when I tried the HTML example programs. I tried
to build it using the unicode version and all errors went away. I just
have to specify
WX_UNICODE=	yes
in the port's Makefile to use the unicode version. This changes WX_CONFIG
from wxgtk2-2.6-config to wxgtk2u-2.6-config.

Do you think wxD should use the unicode version per default or do you think the user should choose if he wants to use unicode or not?

[1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060814234414.GA57035 [2] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44E35E5A.1090306

Jona Joachim wrote:

>>Thanks for the files. The patches and the workarounds should not
>>be needed with wxD 0.08 (wonder about the DESTDIR changes though,
>>those shouldn't really be necessary, will have to investigate it)
> 
> There was a big discussion recently about the implementation of DESTDIR on
> the FreeBSD ports mailing list. The current implementation is problematic
> in some situations [1] and it's not trivial to implement it right.
> Contributors were told to wait a bit until they make their ports DESTDIR
> aware [2].

Strange that FreeBSD haven't got their act together about DESTDIR/prefix
but wxD uses the GNU packaging standard and will install to $(DESTDIR).

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html

It also happens to work out of the box with RPM, which is what I use...
(well, "will use eventually" as you saw with the directory typo :-) )

> Do you think wxD should use the unicode version per default or do you
> think the user should choose if he wants to use unicode or not?

That's up to the wxWidgets library, but wxD should work with both...

As I understand wx, "ANSI" means UTF-8 but "Unicode" means UTF-16/32
(default is currently "ANSI" for Win/Mac, but "Unicode" for Linux ?)

--anders