[wx-discuss] Re: SoC starts...

[Francesco Montorsi]

Julian Smart ha scritto:
> At 08:53 25/05/2006, you wrote:
>> Julian Smart <julian at anthemion.co.uk>:
>> > Later we can think of a sexy name.
>>
>> At the time I was thinking about doing something like this about year 
>> ago, I
>> choosed code name OVEN as a speedup for baking ;-)
> 
> :-) This project won't be limited to Bakefile.
Ok; let's avoid my first attempt, pkgmngr.

Robin, since you are going to setup the CVS place for it, probably it 
would be better to use "packagemanager" for now. BTW the directory name 
is probably the least important thing :D


>> I think tehre is an important problem how to cooperate with more than one
>> instance of wxWidgets installed. Should every instance has own package 
>> manager
>> or should be default instance marked in environment for any execution of
>> package manager or there should be choice of instance within package 
>> manager.
> 
> Good point. Maximum choice would be required, since you may wish to
> compile the same package with several versions of wxWidgets. One scenario
> may be to have one or more independent directories that can be
> used with one ore more versions of wxWidgets. So you could replace
> your wxWidgets distribution without having to reinstall all your
> packages.
I agree that common directories can be a very convenient thing but there 
are some drawbacks:

-> compiled stuff (object files, libraries, exe) should still go in the 
appropriate folders in the wxWidgets installation used to link the 
component or anyway in unique folders for each different wx installation.
This means that e.g. the component stuff (sources & binaries) could be 
scattered in different folders. This could be confusing for the 
non-expert users: probably the install button should leave to the user 
the choice between "standard install strategy" and "custom install 
strategy"...

-> adding too many linker & compiler search paths could be a big 
troubles for non-expert users...


Francesco


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