Re: [jazzplusplus-devel] Long hello

[Pete S. <pst...@gm...>]

BP = Björn Pfeiffer
BP> Hi everybody,
BP> I just recently stumbled upon this project
BP> looking for a simple midi-recorder for windows.

We're not recording yet, but I'm starting to work with the 
portmedia/portmidi project to make this happen.

BP> Looks like something I'd like to get involved in.

Sounds great.

BP> I am working with a mingw (tdm-4.3) and codeblocks
BP> workbench on XP here (not too keen on setting up
BP> vc for this) so i tried to go along importing the
BP> vc projects in codeblocks, adjusting the
BP> compiler-settings, patching the source.  I found
BP> that this is a pure ansi project, while my wx2.8
BP> being built unicode.

I would be interested in an ANSI + STL wxWidgets 2.8.9 build using MinGW 
for CodeBlocks.  Would you like to take a crack at that?

BP> So having read about the new wxString implementation
BP> in wx2.9 - that has unicode/ansi merged with fancy
BP> constructors from char*, std::string etc - I
BP> continued with that, patching the source
BP> (mostly char* <> wxString conversions).

We don't need this.  Note that we build wxWidgets with wxUSE_STL and it 
gets around this problem.

BP> But after some time I had to stop short on this
BP> (marked deprecated) proplist thing, that just
BP> doesn't want to compile for 2.9 anymore.

For now we are sticking with wx 2.8.* until 3.0.* is out and is stable 
w.r.t. the API.

BP> Long story, just a few questions:
BP> - Are there efforts for a mingw port/setup?

No, but this would be welcome.

BP> I do not mean to switch and not for releases
BP> (for executable size is pretty bad compared to vc),
BP> just as an alternative for the devs.

I like the idea because the more platforms/compilers you build a code 
with, the better the code gets because each platform/compiler highlights 
different issues.

BP> - Could anybody upload a binary (windows)?
BP> I'd like to get an idea of what the prop-thing
BP> practically does (plan to replace it with
BP> something else).

I might take a crack at this over the weekend or possibly email you a 
version directly.

BP> - Why no intermediate nightly builds for win32?

The code just isn't ready for this.

BP> - What about migrating the wx-version to
BP> 2.9 => wx30? Maybe (probably) in a separate
BP> branch.

I would prefer to skip 2.9 and wait until 3.0 is out and stable.  To 
many other problems with Jazz++ to deal with this at the moment.

BP> Big hello for a start.

Same here :-)

BP> Looking forward to your opinions on these ideas.
BP>
BP> But for now:
BP> Happy Xmas everybody !

Merry Christmas to you Björn.

Pete