I'm not suggesting doing anything more than wrapping around WxWidgets. And a few years ago I asked about including wxDDE* into Wx.pm and was told no (but I don't recall who it was that said that at the time).
That is all I was trying to say. Adam On 9 April 2013 18:56, Mark Dootson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 08/04/2013 22:17, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > This is the class in question. > > > > http://docs.wxwidgets.org/stable/wx_wxddeserver.html#wxddeserver > > > > And I stand corrected, this would fix the port problem ONLY on Windows. > > > > Hey, if you want wxDDE I'll see if it builds with recent MinGW and add > it. As it is a 1980's IPC I never really thought it represented a defect. > > > The ideal solution is that WxWindows itself supports the necesary > > API for doing single instance support "properly" on each platform, > > but nobody would add that API to the Perl Wx bindings. > > Why would no-one add some part of wxWidgets/wxWindows to Wx? I assume > what you actually mean is that this should be part of Wx and Wx should > evolve into something more than a wrapper for wxWidgets?. Personally I'm > of the feeling that I'd only want to commit to maintaining Wx as a > wrapper around wxWidgets. I think Wx::SomeOtherDeveloper would be a > great idea for bits that someone wants to add in that aren't part of > wxWidgets. Then Wx::SomeOtherDeveloper could be just whatever you want > it to be. I can't see that creating something that isn't part of > wxWidgets would take any extra effort whatsoever to put in > Wx::SomeOtherDeveloper and as Wx is a wrapper around wxWidgets something > that isn't in wxWidgets would not to me seem automatically best placed > in Wx. Importantly too, I don't see that putting something in > Wx::SomeOtherDeveloper would add one iota of extra work for the implementer > > > If we have better control over the evolution of Wx than when I was > > working on Padre actively, by far the best solution is to have it > > added to Wx.pm and then port to using that instead of my hand-rolled > > approach. > > What sort of control do you envisage? I can't imagine not helping to > integrate any contributed code in the appropriate package nor helping > with any request on how to integrate something nor handing over release > and maintenance of Wx to anyone who wants to do it. I have no interest > whatsoever in maintaining Wx with the narrow focus of a Padre > sub-project. However, I have no sense of ownership over Wx so if anyone > fancies doing something else with it then feel free to offer. > > Some code would be nice. > > Cheers > > Mark > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Padre-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.perlide.org/mailman/listinfo/padre-dev >
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