Ann: wxCode is now useable again
Otto Wyss
The transition of wxCode is now finished, maybe not everything is
correctly working. It has now a much simpler web interface so I'm able
to manage it mostly myself. Also the workload has been shifted so any
submitter/maintainer of code is able to manage his components himself
without interaction of me. This hopefully leads to much better uptodate
versions of the components.
wxCode is a place where anyone can submit his code snippets for
wxWidgets (see "http://wxcode.sourceforge.net"). Essentially it provides
write CVS access for anyone submitting code. That means a maintainer of
a component might directly manage and update his code within wxCode.
Therefore any user of wxCode can be sure that this is most probably the
newest available code.
IMO wxCode should become a place where any code can be submitted which
is usable in conjunction with wxWidgets but simply can't be maintained
by the core team of wxWidgets. wxCode is rather similar to the contrib
section of wxWidget but with an open maintainer ship. Anyone may submit
code as long as it's usable by the wxWidgets community. Submitting code
means also to take care but maintainer ship may be transfered anytime.
Some questions remain regarding the relation to wxWidgets:
- naming: Any maintainer is free in how to name his submission except if
its vetoed by the wxWidgets core team or by the wxCode project leader.
- duplicate code: There should not be any duplicate in wxCode and
wxWidgets, code moved into wxWidgets should be removed form wxCode and
vise versa.
- unmaintained code: wxWidgets should not contain any unmaintained code
while wxCode can but it will be removed after a certain time period (one
year?)
Thanks goes to
- Lars Heuer for his help in the still needed PHP work
O. Wyss
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See "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide" for application design
See "http://freshmeat.net/projects/wxguide-editor" for a nice editor
Jorg
As an author of such a repository, I know it is however important to
list the files with description / release dates / screenshots / author /
versions etc on the main site as well and not only in sourcforge. That
would be very helpful to look for the right type of component, and see
how it looks like. Constantly downloading and trying to get it to work,
is more time consuming when a developer is scauting for something useful
.. ;-)
Great site though!
- Jorgen
Otto Wyss
Jorg <soli...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
On the front page there is a link to the List of components. On the list
you can just click on the name and you get directly the Readme from CVS
(try "wxsheet"). The maintainer should update this readme regularly.
The List of components has a date of the last update and I plan to
derive it somehow from the date of the last readme change. But this
involves some PHP work again :-(