Re: [Boa Constr] [wxPython-users] Question on opinions...

[werner <wb...@fr...>]

This is going a bit OT for this list, hope others won't mind.

I copy the Boa list, so specific stuff for Boa should probably move to 
there.

On 26/11/2010 05:43, Chris Spencer wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 23:08:57 -0500, C M<cmp...@gm...>  wrote:
>> Chris,
>> What I'm wondering is:  would it be possible to round up a a few
>> people to help push Boa back into the 10s or whatever this decade is
>> called?  In terms of the controls, maybe we could take a look at what
>> it is missing, determine the procedure for adding a control in, and
>> divide the labor amongst a group of people over a period of months.  I
>> don't know how hard this is to do, but if it is a matter of a few
>> hours per control, I would be willing to try a few if I could.  Werner
>> would probably be able to apprise people of what that entails.
>>
>> I'd also like to see an option for toggling Boa's creation of widget
>> IDs, which I find unnecessary and cluttered (and instead assign them
>> all -1), and another toggling of  providing sizes to widgets if one is
>> in "sizers mode" (which wouldn't affect you, since you don't use
>> sizers).
>>
>> Beyond that, there are probably a lot of fun newer things that could
>> be included.
>> Che
> First off, can you post a link to your tutorials.  I've been using Boa
> for nearly 10 years now (yeesh, I'm old).  But I'm always up for
> learning new things.
>
> Second, without "commit" rights on the Boa Constructor repository,
> we'd HAVE to fork it in order to be able to distribute it.  I'd love
> to get the maintainer's permission to either fork it or get commit
> rights to it.
>
> I'm also willing to put in a fairly decent amount of work to add
> controls and do some general "fixing up".  I wouldn't mind working
> with others to accomplish this.  I'm in agreement that it is the best
> GUI designer/IDE out there right now, even in it dilapidated state. It
> would be nice to shine it up and reintroduce it to the world.
>
> We could take this to private email.  I also would like to know what
> Werner thinks, since he's the main contact-man on all things Boa, and
> has been for quite a few years.
Having used Boa for the last 7 or 8 years for my shareware I would also 
like to see it "restart".

I'll expand on what I think is needed for a "restart" on the Boa list 
later today.

Werner