[wxCode-users] Best way to handle external dependencies ?

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Hi,
    I'd like to know how are you handling external dependencies: I have
some components which work as "bridge" between other libraries &
wxWidgets and all the times I need to check them out in a new
workstation, I also need to download those other libraries, remember 
what I have to do to compile them; compile them and then compile my 
component using the appropriate OTHERLIB_DIR makefile options so that my 
component can find the header & .lib files of these "third-party" libraries.

I think that there must be some way to make the process quicker: I know 
that this issue is something more generic than wxCode but the problem is 
that those people who want to use such components which require 
additional libraries, always need to do all that additional work and 
maybe they just decide to give up using a component because of all this...

maybe the best solution is to add in the wxCode CVS the source files & 
header files (excluding all other stuff which usually comes with a 
release: docs, test programs, etc) of those "thirdparty" libraries.

I found this approach very comfortable when working on wxArt2d which 
keeps a folder "wxArt2d\thirdparty" where all the required libraries are 
stored.

Do you think this would be a good approach ?
In this case I would put in wxscript\thirdparty and wxxml2\thirdparty 
the libraries required by those two components... making a lot quicker 
and easier to use them...

Let me know your opinion,
Francesco