Bug 189564 – wxGTK package not providing virtual wxwin package

Bug 189564 - wxGTK package not providing virtual wxwin package

Summary:	wxGTK package not providing virtual wxwin package

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	wxGTK (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Matthew Miller
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2006-04-20 23:20 EDT by Ben Coleman
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-04-21 11:37:32 EDT
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Description Ben Coleman 2006-04-20 23:20:28 EDT

Description of problem:

There's a convention that packages of WxWindows ports should provide a (virtual)
package wxwin, so that packages can depend on the presence of a WxWindows port,
regardless of the toolkit used (e.g., see
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/wxGTK/wxGTK.spec).  The FC4 and FC5 Extras
packages don't provide this.

Comment 1 Matthew Miller 2006-04-20 23:35:26 EDT

Hmmm. See comment #5 in bug #154618. That's about "wxWindows" rather than
"wxwin", but I think the same logic applies.....

Comment 2 Ben Coleman 2006-04-21 00:14:56 EDT

In other words, the packages might connect at the package dependency level, but
they're not going to connect at the link level?  If you've built against wxGTK,
it's not going to link against wxqt, because there's a common API at the source
level, but not a common ABI at the link level.  Silly me, I figured if the
convention existed, it would actually work.

Comment 3 Matthew Miller 2006-04-21 11:37:32 EDT

Teh generated libraries are all things like "libwx_gtk2u_core", and so
presumably "libwx_qt_core" or "libwx_motif_core". So I don't think we even need
to test to see that it won't work.....

I'm going to close this as WONTFIX. Reopen if I'm wrong. :)

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