Just wanting to get a heads up on when Phoenix may be ready for use.
i.e. official beta releases. I see daily snapshots. Is it still a fast
moving target or is Phoenix getting close to beta status ??
Ideally I'd like to start with Python 3.3 (soon to be released) and
wxWidgets 3 (not sure if that is close or not -- the latest 2.9 should
be ok).
I think Robin answered a question like this a couple weeks ago. As I recall, the ETA was something like a few months. To my way of thinking, I’m guessing we might see a beta in a month or so and an official release in Q1 of 2013. As for wxWidgets 3.x, who knows when that will happen?
Just wanting to get a heads up on when Phoenix may be ready for use.
i.e. official beta releases. I see daily snapshots. Is it still a fast
moving target or is Phoenix getting close to beta status ??
It hasn't moved a whole lot recently as I've had some paying projects and some other issues that have taken priority. Those are tapering off now so I expect to get Phoenix rolling forward again soon.
If all you need are the core modules then it may be usable for you now. There is at least one person who is already using it for new projects.
Ideally I'd like to start with Python 3.3 (soon to be released) and
wxWidgets 3 (not sure if that is close or not -- the latest 2.9 should
be ok).
The 2.9 series is what will become 3.0 when it is deemed ready. I would strongly suggest that any new projects should be starting with 2.9, and established projects that expect to still have a lot of additional UI code added to them should upgrade and port to 2.9. That way when 3.0 does get released it should just be a matter of installing the new wxPython and very little (if any) things in the application would need to get changed.
Transitioning from Classic to Phoenix will take more work, but getting up to a current 2.9 (Classic) release would be a great first step for that transition too.
Phoenix might be usable for you as it is now - just today I got my
shareware running under it, so far with just one “if ‘phoenix’ in
wx.PlatformInfo:”
I think before a beta could come out it would need that the demo
is updated. IIRC Robin is thinking on how to do this, change the
demo framework or “just” make it run under Phoenix.
I would also think that we would get to beta quicker if we all help
a bit in the wx.lib conversion and whenever Robin did the ground
work on the demo to help moving the demo modules.
Just my 0.02€
Werner
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Hi,
On 13/04/2013 03:03, DevPlayer wrote:
BTW, the
following roadmap page seems to be out of date – which is good
as it's mostly complete ;-)
* [http://wiki.wxpython.org/TentativeRoadmap](http://wiki.wxpython.org/TentativeRoadmap)
Thanks, Brendan.
It would be nice to see an updated Roadmap commenting on this
- Phoenix might be usable for you as it is now - just today I got my shareware running under it, so far with just one "if 'phoenix' in wx.PlatformInfo:"
Might have been a bit optimistic here;-) , needed some more of these if's, to get rid of the deprecation warnings.
