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From:
Doubi
Date:
July 31, 2009 06:05
Subject:
Re: Documentation?
Message ID:
4A72EC0E.6020107@gmail.com
Robin Cragg (Solutios Ltd) wrote:
> Someone who is completely new to wxPerl and does not know C++ needs
> something like what O'Reilly have for Perl/Tk
>
> [...]
>
> In contrast, someone who has been using wxPerl longer just needs a
> quick-and-easy API reference (or even a cookbook?).

This is a very good point :-) It seems there's a bigger market here for 
something closer to the first option than the second.

Steffen Mueller wrote:
> Personally, the highest ranking item on my Wx wishlist is that someone 
> (or ideally several someones) went through the pain of learning C++, 
> wxWidgets, XS (aka C + perlapi + the actual XS bits), and the Wx.pm 
> code enough to help Mattia maintain the beast. We have a pretty bad 
> bus factor and I don't think it's fair that we're putting as much 
> pressure on a fellow volunteer by simply depending on his work this much.
>
> That being said, I have been reading the Wx XS code here and there to 
> the best of my limited abilities. Progress is slow and distraction is 
> cheap. :(

Yes, that would be good. I can kind of read that stuff but as I 
mentioned before it's pretty advanced XS. As for documenting it it's 
hard to know where to begin / what would be useful for people. Heck, I 
don't even understand what I need to understand about it, if ye get what 
I mean  <: p

Do you think you could post up any insights you've gained so far on the 
wxPerl wiki? ( http://wxperl.pvoice.org/w/index.php )

-- Ryan

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