[wxPython-users] Re: Clipboard refuses

[Mike Driscoll]

Egbert,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Egbert Bouwman [mailto:egbert.bouwman at xs4all.nl] 
> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 4:29 PM
> To: wxPython-users at lists.wxwidgets.org
> Subject: Re: [wxPython-users] Re: Clipboard refuses
> 
> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 05:40 -0800, Ben Kaplan wrote:
> > The Debian repositories aren't exactly keeping up with the newest 
> > releases of wxPython. The version you are using is 14 
> releases behind 
> > (though I might have miscounted). Try updating wxPython and see if 
> > that makes a difference.
> > 
> > http://wiki.wxpython.org/InstallingOnUbuntuOrDebian
> 
> That was quite a surprise.
> I have to recompile, but I don't know yet if I want to.
> I am very much afraid of ceating an unstable or not working system. 
> Stabilising an unstable system is not my forte.
> And the debian maintainers must have their reasons not to update.
> egbert
> 
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> 

You needn't worry about upgrading wxPython on Debian. The developers on
Debian are just super cautious. As I understand it, you can run Debian
Testing with few bugs. Anyway, we use Debian in our system critical
servers and I update it from time to time to the latest wxPython. I think
I'm a couple releases behind, but that's only because I test my programs
on a client first and I haven't needed any of the new features on the
server yet.

The likelihood of a wxPython upgrade making your system unstable is next
to null. You can uninstall it even if it does.

Mike