[webkit-dev] Is the wxWidgets port maintained?

Martin Robinson mrobinson at webkit.org
Mon Feb 11 12:47:11 PST 2013


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Kevin Ollivier
<kevino at theolliviers.com> wrote:

> The project is not dead per-se, but it's true that it's not very active
> these days. Recently, I haven't had a lot of time to devote to the port. The
> other big factor has been that I've been the only active contributor to the
> port pretty much since its inception, which has made patch submission pretty
> difficult due to the challenge of finding a reviewer with knowledge of the
> wx code. As a result, the wx activity on trunk will look pretty sparse since
> I'm making most of my changes on the wx port's git repo on gitorious.org
> rather than submitting patches for trunk. When it comes to trunk, I
> basically just periodically submit build fixes for any build breakages in
> order to merge and update my git mirror.

Regardless of whether the Wx port stays in the tree, I think you
should consider changing your build system. I believe the only port
that uses waf is Wx, so using cmake or gyp will make your work a lot
easier.

--Martin


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