Re: Convert Bitcoin to GTK: Yes? No? wx is better?

teknohog couldn’t have explained my view better.

Quote from: BioMike on August 19, 2010, 8:05:18 AM UTC

WxWidgets is not really a problem. My problem is the version that is used (2.9), which is considered unstable by many distro packagers (although the WxWidgets devs say it isn’t). On the other side, as far as I know WxWidgets uses gtk under Linux for drawing the whole stuff and makes it for the bitcoins devs easy to make things cross platform.

wxWidgets 2.9 is their first UTF-8 version. We are UTF-8 on all platforms including Windows.

The distro packages of 2.8 are UTF-16, so they just trip people up. People had endless build problems with 2.8 and its wxString UTF-16/ANSI conditional build options until we standardized on 2.9. Also, to use 2.8, we were using ANSI, which was just a temporary stopgap until wxWidgets supported UTF-8.

This is a problem that will solve itself. With time, 2.9 will become a more mainline release.

Yes, I understand why 2.9 was chosen. And I think it is also reasonable, but just unfortunate for people who just want to install the dep from their distro. (Under gentoo it b0rks up building other Wxwidget apps when having 2.9 installed into /usr/local)