wxC & wxD

[Gour]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:18:33 +0100
Anders F Björklund <afb at algonet.se> wrote:

> At this point in time it doesn't matter, the generated files are
> different even if the scripts to generate them are somewhat similar.
> The API is also different, from the different languages used and
> from this recent push to rename things to be more like rest of .NET.

OK.

> Easiest way to tell is to start wrapping a couple of classes, to see ?

[...]

> Here's a more complete example of what it would look like in the end:
> 
> http://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxPython/trunk/src/
> http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/wxruby/swig/classes/

Thank you.

> Even using SWIG, there's a whole lot of code that needs to be written.

Sure. We just wonder if using route will be more effective in the long
run?

> I don't plan to do anything with it, I put it up on github so that it
> could be forked and maintained if there are any bugfixes etc needed...

OK.

> Both wxWidgets and Code::Blocks are Open Source, so if you want to
> continue to base the GUI and IDE for the D programming language on
> those there's plenty of things that could be improved for either...

Well, for IDE, I'll probably use Geany. As far as GUI-part is concerned,
depending on the toolkit we choose. we'd just use some GUI builder (each
toolkit has some.)

> The wxWidgets roadmap says "We hope to make 3.0 in the spring of
> 2012." But as mentioned earlier, using 2.9 should be just fine before
> that ?

Yes. Afaik, the major part of new wx-3.0 stuff is already in 2.9.

> It's perfectly doable to continue to use the current
> wxd.sourceforge.net even with wx 3.0 and D 2.0, so I think I will
> just leave that up as-is. 

OK.

> When starting up the "wxD2" or "$deity" - or whatever the new project
> would be named, it could probably do more changes than just use SWIG ?

Thank you for making it clear. ;)


Sincerely,
Gour


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