[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.
>

This seams reasonable. This should then be put in a specification of some sort and put on the web site. So everyone knows what they have to keep themselves to. 

Imre

>- Thomas
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