[Boost-users] Re: I'm looking for applications using Boost andSTL withsource code available

From: Jeffrey Holle (jeff.holle_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-17 19:29:19

My understanding is that wxWidgets is currently getting a major re-write to make 
use of modern C++ style of coding.  I know lots of discussion of the STL is 
being generated on its mail lists.

So I think some collaboration, if not lots, would be in order...

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> Ken Perry wrote:
> 
>>Normally I would agree with this reply but not since I found
>>WXWidgets. In fact I would love to see boost and WX Widgets merge
>>together. WXWidgets is a crose platform GUI library like MFC and VCL
>>and it is 12 years old.  It runs on MAC, Linux, and Windows.  Heck he
>>is even working on a version for palm devices.  check it out at
>>www.wxwidgets.org  and think of all the things that could be done if
>>it was part of all the boost work.
> 
> 
> You might want to search the archives for recent discussions on this list about
> GUI frameworks. wxWidgets was discussed in detail, and there was even talk about
> a collaboration between wxWidgets and Boost developers. However, the conensus
> was that wxWidgets was decidedly unmodern C++.
> 
> Jonathan