Re: [wxCode-users] Project for a variety of classes?

[John L. <jla...@gm...>]

On 11/20/05, Angelo's Gmail <ama...@gm...> wrote:
> What about wxGizmos?  wxExtras?

Gizmos is already in wxWidgets in the contrib dir and wxExtras, like
wxThings, is probably too vague.

>  These are more or less snippets of code that can be used for different
> things, and not necessarily all used together.  Maybe we should have a
> special area called wxSnippets.  Though it appears someone had this idea
> last year: http://sourceforge.net/projects/snippets/  We
> could still have a snippets component I think.

That is a weird project, the code snippets are for all sorts of
arbitrary things and every conceivable language. Almost all of my
stuff depends on wxWidgets.

It is an interesting idea though. I think it *might* make sense to
create a some components for projects that are at most two source and
header files that would be open to anyone. The problem is that you can
loose control over it easily. By control, I mean that as wxWidgets
changes so too should all the files in these components and if some of
the files stop compiling the whole component is dead. If the original
author disappears, the maintenance falls on the others. Maybe this
wouldn't happen, but if did it could become a headache to have to
maintain others work. To be frank, I'd be wary of it, but it could
work if every member of the component was reasonably active.

Regards,
    John Labenski