[wx-dev] which forseeable API changes still, (2.8 release schedule )?

[Alex Bligh]

--On 09 September 2006 12:43 +0200 Robert Roebling <robert at roebling.de> 
wrote:

> - wxAUI
> wxAUI works well right now under wxGTK and wxMSW, even
> if there are still some optical problems for the AUI
> notebooks. I haven't tried under wxMAC, but the patches
> there indicate, it does run and work there, too.

There is more I'd like to do to the API here (and I think Ben would too).
For instance, bars which change shape depending on where they are docked
(think toolbars that go vertical when docked vertically, horizontal when
docked vertically etc.). I seem to remember people wanted some more events
(I can't now remember whether we yet have dock & undock events that can be
veto'd and am traveling at the moment so can't check, but someone proposed
that and it sounds a sensible idea).

I haven't tried the AUIbook stuff in anger, but last I heard on this
list it was not close to finished, and not integrated into AUI.

There are a few other significant bugs (like not being able to drag
floating toolbars by the gripper) but I don't think they are API affecting.

Pressure of other work means I'm not likely to be able to make too much
contribution here until about this time next month which is less than
useful I know, and really ought to disqualify me from comment :-) But
that said, my opinion is that wxAUI interface is probably not ready
for a 2.8 yet. That doesn't of course mean we shouldn't do 2.8, just
that the 2.10 / 3.0 interface for wxAUI would probably look substantially
different.

> - wxODCombo etc.
> I never used it, by my understanding is that the API
> is stable right now (at least usable, flexible and
> documented)

I haven't checked the docs, but yes, wxODComboBox and friends are
in my opinion stable and working. We've done a lot of stuff with
them (including some significant interface abuse) and they seem
to work well to me.

There is one other thing I'd really like to see in 2.8 which I spent
some time on without conclusion which might or might not be done. That's
making a static link with wx smaller on gtk & gnu compiler set by
dropping unused code at a function level rather than at a file
level. That's down to build flags. I got some of this working. I'll
see what I can dig up.

Alex