Re: [Anarchdb-devel] Re: ARDB

[Francois Gombault]

Good, a couple more people. =)
Hi Karl, hi Graham.

Ok, the wxWidgets stuff is well documented and the code itself should be
understandable. I didn't use any C++ arcane, so anyone familiar with C
or java should be able to figure it out.
And I'll answer any questions.

I don't own any Windows computer. Here is how I worked on ARDB:

1- implement features, compile and test them on my linux box
2- when it's time for a release, cross-compile for win32
3- test that build on a friend's computer. find bugs then goto 2
Release Windows build when it looks ok
4- cvs update the sources on my iBook, compile, test and release Mac build.

I can write a step-by-step manual to explain the process in detail. I
can provide the compiling knowledge and the "linux->win32" cross-compile
tools.

But as you can imagine, step 3 was a bit tedious. You people probably
have a Windows computer, so the cross-compiling constraint can go away.
Maybe it would be interesting to make ARDB buildable with Visual C++ or
whatever you feel comfortable with?

ARDB uses a few open-source libraries: libxml2 and libxslt (XML/XSL
engine), sqlite (Database) and of course wxWidgets (GUI). All of this is
supposed to be cross-platform and high-profile, I'm pretty sure a lot of
people have already used them in a Windows dev environment. There should
be docs and mailing lists posts about this to help us.

I'll be hanging around on irc from now on, check #anarchdb on
irc.freenode.net (if anything interesting is said over there, don't
forget to post the transcript on this list).
Please give me your Savannah account names so I can give you write
access to the CVS repository.

Cheers! ^_^


Karl George Schaefer wrote:
> Francois,
> 
> I'm happy to help, as well.  C++ is not my strong-suit (I'm a child of
> the Java generation), but I can do it.  I took a brief look at the code
> yesterday.  It seems pretty straight-forward.  The wxWindows stuff is
> new to me and I haven't actually downloaded the CVS tree to attempt a
> compile yet.


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Francois Gombault
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