[Wolves] trying to install pyodb

[Adam Sweet]

On 10/05/2017 23:12, Adam Sweet wrote:
> On 10/05/2017 13:58, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint via Wolves wrote:
>> http://www.obdtester.com/pyobd
>>
> I'm a bit surprised their latest Linux version doesn't support a recent
> Linux distribution but Looking at the package, it was most recently
> updated in 2015 and the previous one was 2010. The last real development
> was 2004 with only bug fixes since.
> 
> You could always try contacting them to ask if they could update the
> package to work with python-wxgtk3 but the chances are, if there's no
> financial motivation to do so, then they won't. They probably don't have
> a Linux developer sitting there doing nothing and updating to a newer
> graphical toolkit might not be a quick job.

I meant to add that you could always try porting the software to wxgtk3
yourself. The source is available and necessity is the mother of
invention...

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