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

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-17 19:39:37

Jeffrey Holle wrote:

> 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++.
>>
> 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...

Me too. I just meant that the current implementation was not 'modern'

>> Jonathan