[wxPython-dev] 2.8.7.0 coming soon

[Peter Damoc]

Hi Cody,

IMHO, having a wheel and reinventing it to make it better is a GREAT THING!
Having no good wheel or a broken  wheel and having 20 people perpetualy
duplicating each others efforts is another thing.... not so great...

To give you an example... I thing that a lot of editors started as an
extension of PythonSTC class from the Demo. :) Well at least some of them
started that way... :)
There should have been an editor component inside the wx.stc lib... one that
would have taken care of most tasks "reinvented" by some of the editors
programmers. An editor component that would have taken care of at least
Python language... this way a lot of the effort spent reinventing the wheel
would have resulted in patches to wxpython, patches that would have
beneffited a larger audience... :)

Of course.... this is only an opinion... personal and maybe wrong... :) I
think that wxpython should encourage a higher level API that will alow
beginners to use highly complex components without having to bother with the
internals... A beginner should be able to compose an app using components
like FileBrowser, Editor or PhotoBrowser or MoviePlayer or something else at
this level.

When you start programming you don't "custom".... you need "working".

Peter

On Nov 20, 2007 9:24 AM, Cody Precord <codyprecord at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On a side note however I have never understood why so many
> people cast re-inventing the wheel in negative terms, things have
> been done, redone, thrown away, reborn and built upon in all aspects
> of technology throughout the ages, this is how progress is made and
> new ideas are born. There is a certain level of efficiency that can
> be gained from reusing the same wheel over and over again but if
> efficiency in that area is/was the only goal we would likely still be
> rolling around in vehicles with stone or wooden wheels ;)
>

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There is NO FATE, we are the creators.
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