[ros-dev] wxwidgets

[Imre Leber]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas Weidenmueller [mailto:w3seek at reactos.com]
>Sent: Friday, September 1, 2006 01:01 PM
>To: 'ReactOS Development List'
>Subject: Re: [ros-dev] wxwidgets
>
>> What is the standpoint of the reactos project on using libraries, like for
>> example wxwidgets for implementing reactos software (like reactos movie
>> maker)?
>
>This would just make the build process more complicated than neccessary,
>and increase compile time and download size (sources). Tools/Applications
>that come with ReactOS are not needed and expected to be ported to other
>architectures. We should stick to plain Win32/64 APIs. Also C is preferred
>over C++ a lot.
>
>> Further is there any specification that says for example "everything has
>> to be compilable with mingw", or "everything has to run on i386/pentium
>> xx"?
>
>- No other tools/libraries neccessary on the host than the minimum build
>system (mingw, nasm, make)
>- Only use C++ when it makes sense, prefer C (not just because g++ is so
>extremely slow)
>- Don't include pre-built binaries in the repository, everything needs to
>be built from source code
>- Don't bloat the repository with tons of huge libraries (do we still have
>more than one xml library?!)
>- Software that is included in the base repository should not use
>frameworks for portability and use the APIs directly instead
>
>That's my personal opinions and doesn't neccessarily match with those of
>the other developers.
>

Of course, I was suggesting wxWidgets since it seems that it is the closest thing to MFC, what most windows programmers would be accustomed to.

That it also happens to run in linux is, of course, completely irrelevant.

Imre

>- Thomas
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