Re: [ros-dev] wxwidgets

[Imre Leber]

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Weidenmueller [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Friday, September 1, 2006 01:01 PM
> To: 'ReactOS Development List'
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] wxwidgets
>
> >   What is the standpoint of the reactos project on
> > using libraries, like for
> >  example wxwidgets for implementing reactos software (like reactos movie
> >  maker)? 
> This would just make the build process more complicated than neccessary,
> and increase compile time and download size (sources). Tools/Applications
> that come with ReactOS are not needed and expected to be ported to other
> architectures. We should stick to plain Win32/64 APIs. Also C is preferred
> over C++ a lot.
>
> >   Further is there any specification that says for
> > example "everything has
> >  to be compilable with mingw", or "everything has to run on i386/pentium
> >  xx"? 
> - No other tools/libraries neccessary on the host than the minimum build
> system (mingw, nasm, make)
> - Only use C++ when it makes sense, prefer C (not just because g++ is so
> extremely slow)
> - Don't include pre-built binaries in the repository, everything needs to
> be built from source code
> - Don't bloat the repository with tons of huge libraries (do we still have
> more than one xml library?!)
> - Software that is included in the base repository should not use
> frameworks for portability and use the APIs directly instead
>
> That's my personal opinions and doesn't neccessarily match with those of
> the other developers.
>  
This seams reasonable. This should then be put in a specification of some sort and put on
the web site. So everyone knows what they have to keep themselves to. 

Imre

>  - Thomas
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ros-dev mailing list
> Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>
>