Re: [wxCode-users] wxCode project improvements

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

Hi,

 >> I've just added the UNMANTAINED search option in the website search 
page.
 >> So it's now easier for wxCode administrator to find the unmantained
 >> components (actually there are 15 of them ! half of the registered
 >> components; shouldn't we do a cleanup ??)
 >
 >
 > I don't know what you mean by cleanup, just because a project hasn't
 > been tinkered with recently doesn't mean that it doesn't work as
 > advertised.

Almost all (and I say "almost" only because I haven't tried them all 
yet) do not provide any working build system so that it's impossible to 
compile them to test if they work without writing a new bakefile/makefile.
Looking at the dates in the source files and in the readmes I find that 
most of these components have been created for wx2.0 or wx2.2 and I 
really doubt that they could still compile and work for wx2.6 without 
some work on them.


 > I was actually thinking that we should tone down the
 > UNMAINTAINED banner since it'll only discourage people.

maybe it does but I think that anyone who needs a component wants 
something reliable or at least working; and actually unmaintained 
components are not reliable nor "compilable"...

It's a pity remove code that could still be useful with some 
modifications... maybe we should add some links (something like "Want to 
be the maintainer for this component ?") in the complist which are shown 
in each unmaintained component and which point to the register page; 
maybe in this way we could find some mantainer for reworking of current 
components...
we should also send a msg with a list of unmaintaned components to the 
wx-users mailist list searching for maintainers...

 > If however
 > there are projects that simply don't work (for the specified wxWidgets
 > version and platform) then that's a different story and this should be
 > noted somehow, but again not to completely discourage people since
 > maybe someone will try it and patch it up.

if you find some unmaintaned components which you can get to work, then 
please report it... maybe I should write a simple bakefile, maybe just 
for win32 compilers (which I can test easier than GCC) to add to the 
more promising unmaintaned components...

Francesco