[wx-discuss] wxTNG: using external libraries

[Ryan Norton]

 > IMO we shouldn't be writing container/string
 >    classes, socket and thread classes and probably database classes
 >    neither.

This really gets to the core question of whether one wants wx to be 
just a gui framework which happens to use other libraries[1] or a 
general purpose framework much like java and/or MFC that either 
implements their own stuff or wraps around it with wrapper classes etc..

[1] and then why are we even eager to use external libs besides the 
STL. I think maybe a comprimise would be maybe the dictum

Ryan 23.22:
"If you happen to touch on something [like threads] then make a wrapper 
API for it for the users, and if it is something you do not touch 
[databases] and does not have anything to do with your core goal [a GUI 
library] then do not make an API for it."

(Not that I neccesarily agree with that as I would like a general 
purpose lib) Then I think whether or not to use external libraries is 
simply intuitive as in if there is one available and it is halfway 
decent then you use it etc..

 > wxSocket. Should I say more?

Actually, that is probably a bad example simply because even though it 
isn't the greatest and the implementation by 90% of accounts is a mess 
there really isn't too many (yes, there are a couple) other 
alternatives for real cross-platform socket programming with event 
integration.

The actual wxProtocols/wxURL are probably a good example, however.

Thanks,
Ryan


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