[Chandler-dev] Re: wx tarball, SWIG and functional tests update

[David Surovell]

John and list,

Regarding:
> Robin verified that OSX functional tests failed with the old SWIG. So it 
> appears it isn't a SWIG issue as David suspected.
>
But I understand that SWIG v1.3.29 *is* responsible for some new issues.

> Various other bugs were found in the 39 tarball until Heikki backed it 
> out this morning, e.g. Reid discovered that the python shell in Chandler 
> broke and Dan saw unicode errors on Unbuntu. Robin emailed me a fix for 
> my grid lines bug. I suspect we'd find more bugs in 39 if we did more 
> testing..
>
It's good to have the testing done: thanks to all who filed bugs. 
Robin's grid update is already committed, albeit after tarball 39

> I spent the day mostly working on my wxGrid changes to scale column 
> widths. I got it working in the grid sample demo and finished 
> preliminary testing. Next I need to try it in Chandler, which I'm 
> guessing will be easy -- although I can't check it in until we resolve 
> the 39 tarball issues.
> 
> I'm still guessing that getting the 39 tarball ready by Thursday is 
> unlikely to happen given the number of known problems that need to be 
> resolved. Alternatively we could always roll back to 36 then add the 
> wxGrid fixes.
>
This plan (rolling back to 36 + wxGrid) would leave out a large number 
of important fixes.

Regards,
David S.