[wx-discuss] Re: More wxTNG Discussion (was: aspects of a safe future)

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:23:38 +0200 Jeroen van der Wulp <J.v.d.Wulp at tue.nl> wrote:

JvdW> The STL integration is far less than optimal. I have never been able to 
JvdW> do a complete build with --enable-stl.

 You really need to submit bug reports if you want to make statements like
this and be taken seriously. For the record, right now wxUSE_STL build
works for me with both VC7.1 and g++.


JvdW> Why is the use of namespaces seen as enough of an advantage to adopt it 
JvdW> for wxWidgets?

 I guess you missed "not" somewhere here.

JvdW> It clarifies and brings some order in things that are 
JvdW> otherwise just put in the same place.

 Yes, there is an undeniable advantage in writing "wx::Window" instead of
"wxWindow". Or is there? If there is, please describe it.


JvdW> The failure to adopt modern C++ programming mechanisms

 This resembles marketing speak more than anything else. If you have
concrete proposals, please speak up. If you don't, I don't really see the
point of posting.


JvdW> I will not even consider joining the wxWidgets effort

 This is incredibly arrogant.


JvdW> What problem <does> wxWidgets solve? I want to build an application that 
JvdW> works more or less the same everywhere (at least functionally the same). 

 wxWidgets is used in hundreds if not thousands of projects which do
exactly this. The fact there are (and always will be) bugs doesn't mean
that you can't use it for this. And obviously we do our best to fix such
bugs as we find them, sorry if our efforts don't satisfy your expectations.
Of course, we also rely on help from our users and we always appreciate
efforts by people who do something to help wxWidgets. And we, or at least
me personally, appreciate blanket statements of wxWidgets inadequacy
without any constructive contributions behind them much less.

 Regards,
VZ


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