[boost] Re: [gui] The Big Picture [and wxWidgets]

From: Pavel Vozenilek (pavel_vozenilek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-02 07:15:45

"Matt S Trentini" wrote:

> What I'm suggesting (though not very clearly!) is that we work together to 
> make wxWidgets 3.x.  Maybe we call it boost-gui.  Or boost-wxgui. 
> Whatever.
>
> We can leverage off the huge body of existing GUI code that they have 
> while helping to redesign the API's/design to "modernise" the library.
>
LitWindow library from Hajo Kirchhoff looks as step
in this direction. If sucessfull, maybe its API could be used
to wrap other GUI toolkits as well.

> It's always hard trying to get two seperate groups of people working 
> toward a common goal but in this case it seems that our interests are 
> heading along similar paths...
>
> What do people think?  Is it worth starting to open channels to see if 
> such a collaboration is possible?  Do we want a collaboration or do we 
> want more stringent control?  If we were to collaborate what would be the 
> guidelines (license, decision making, ownership etc)?  Do we think the 
> wxWidgets devs are the right ones to be collaborating with?
>
I remember people suggested wxWidgets can reuse
bind/function/signal, back when it was considered as CBX GUI.

What problem is to take/rip these parts from Boost?

> PS Another (less tasteful) alternative is that we could fork from their 
> mainline and start hacking wxWidgets into what we believe it should be. 
> I'd only be interested in this option if the collaboration option had been 
> exhausted.
>
http://www.free-soft.org/guitool/

/Pavel