bug#26176: What to do about unmaintained frameworks like address@hidden in Guix?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Howdy!

Efraim Flashner <address@hidden> skribis:

> Good news on that front! 
>
> $ guix refresh -l wxwidgets
> Building the following 5 packages would ensure 6 dependent packages are
> rebuilt: aria-maestosa-1.4.11 wxmaxima-16.04.2 filezilla-3.24.1
> elixir-1.3.2 audacity-2.1.2

BTW, I used:

  guix graph -t reverse-package address@hidden

to find out how things ended up depending on it.

> kicad uses wxwidgets built with gtk+-2, and the one that didn't show up
> at all, gnucash, uses webkitgtk/gtk+-2, which is the address@hidden version of
> address@hidden
>
> Wxwidgets currently is built with address@hidden, but it looks like it
> supports webkit.
>
> I'm currently working on testing wxwidgets built with webkit to see if
> that takes care of everything currently relying on address@hidden other
> than gnucash.

Looks like it worked pretty well.  :-)

Thank you!

Ludo’.