[wx-dev] wxHTTP rewrite?

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Fri, 02 May 2008 20:41:41 +0200 Falk Tristram <ftristram at gmx.de> wrote:

FT> I will have a deeper look into the libcurl, but still some
FT> functionality is there also missing.

 If you mean "just" the server part then I think it's not a big deal at
all, I'm not sure that we need to have HTTP server in wx. And, of course,
WinInet doesn't support it neither so it would need to be implemented from
scratch anyhow.

 In any case, I hope that even if you need both the client and server
functionality you could start by improving the wx support for the client
part.

FT> > FT> To short things up, wxHTTP is not beautiful :
FT> >  We agree here.
FT> So can I do what I like ? :D

 Well, provided that we like what you do :-)

FT> Who is responsible for that part of code ?
FT> If noone, I could help out ...

 There is no current maintainer (and hasn't been since 10 years or so...)
so yes, we'd be very glad if you could help. However, just to avoid any
future embarrassment, I should say that this doesn't mean that we're
automatically going to integrate anything you do in the official version,
there are some requirements which must be satisfied, e.g.:

1. Probably the most constraining one is that of backwards compatibility
   already mentioned before. Again, it doesn't have to be 100% perfect but
   we'd like to avoid breaking all the existing code using wxHTTP.

2. We need not only the code but also documentation (see
   docs/tech/tn0003.txt) and ideally the samples.

3. All code in wx should conform to our style guidelines (see 
   http://www.wxwidgets.org/develop/standard.htm)

 Regards,
VZ