Re: working towards a modular plugin based audacity

> Federico,
>
> I'd be strongly in favour of a shift to wx2.8 and to building with
> wxWidgets as DLL at the same time.  If we don't do it now, we'll never
> do it :-)
> We could then drop the custom-sln for wxWidgets, which would be a very
> welcome step.  We'd use the standard wxWidgets supplied one and our own
> config (to get accessibility).
>
> Installers would need modifying to install the wxWidgets DLLs.  I'm not
> sure much else would need to change?
>
> --James.
>
>
> Federico Grau wrote:
>  
>> Hello Audacity developers,
>>
>> This email is to start a discussion on how best to transition to a modular
>> plugin based Audacity.  This idea has been tossed around in the past on the
>> mailing list and on the wiki (
>> http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Roadmap
>> http://www.audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php?title=Audacity-Extra ).  
>>
>> With the shuffling that will be going on soon for GSOC, now (the next several
>> weeks before GSOC coding actually starts) is an opportune time to try to make
>> this transition.
>>
>>
>> Steps towards this goal include:
>>  - standardize to using wx 2.8 which I understand to have better support for a
>>    modular build
>>  - Audacity Windows build should switch from a static build to a DLL build
>>  - there should be a basic template/test module/plugin to confirm the new
>>    modular design works and to provide an example for new modules to be built
>>    against
>>
>>
>> On my end, I'll be checking out:
>>  - get wx 2.8 libs working in my Linux environment (debian stable)
>>  - get a windows build env setup
>>  - review the work Dominic and James have done already on src/LoadModules*
>>
>>
>> What do others think?
>>
>> regards,
>> donfede
>>
>>  
>>    
>
>
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