Hi John,
I see your idea .. so basically like a Wt distro. Something that's
maintained using those libraries.
I don't think it'd work directly as there are so many different ways to use
and configure Wt.
How about a new, higher level framework, built on top of Wt. Perhaps
something that specializes in certain types of sites, like just blogs or
ecommerce, or something like that.
Something that provides extra, higher level widgets like, shopping cart, CMS
entry, or something like that ?
but again, there are so many kinds of sites so that might not work either.
----
What about adding them on as plugins ? But then, what would be the
difference between using your system's graphics magick and your Wt graphicks
magic plugin ? just that the Wt one would be tested against a certain
version of Wt ? Or would it provide some kind of GM-WT binding features ..
like WImageWithGMOptions .. like a WImage, but you can 'resize and rotate'
and all that stuff to generate new WImage Resource ?
That might be a nice feature.
I guess the first step would be to find what are the most common libraries
used with Wt.
Personally I'm using:
* yahoo grids for layout (CSS library)
* mongo-db
* podofo for pdf parsing (not generation, actually parsing incoming ones)
* imagemagick (for image resizing)
* a bunch of boost libraries.
Probably for me mongo-db is the one I'm binding closest to Wt, basically
making my own gui-db layer for a lot of things. I can't use the DBO stuff
because mongo has no SQL and is not Relational.
So to everyone else on the list, I ask, what libraries do you use in your Wt
apps ? and which ones do you wish there were a close Wt binding with.
Kind Regards,
Matthew Sherborne
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:36 AM, John Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Witties...
>
> What you guys think about Boosting Wt?
>
> I'm currently creating a site that uses the libraries: RapidXML (to XML
> parsing), cURL (for downloading files and URLs), VMime (to send emails)
> and GraphicsMagick (to manipulate images).
>
> I installed and references, one by one; I looked at dozens of sites
> explain how to use each one and this time-consuming because many forums
> had errors, or the examples no longer work in the current version.
>
> But what do you think about integrating into Wt all of these libraries
> (and others in the future for other functions (like 7zip)) to be called
> directly by Wt classes?!
>
> eg: #include <Wt/...> // WXml, WEmail, WDownload, WGraphic, WZip, etc...
>
> Thus will be much simpler to increase site functionality (and fast
> development), without searching and installing several different types
> of libraries (and there are many for each function).
>
> Installation of other libraries (or new versions) can break the site in
> a version change (apt-get upgrade), but with Wt integration, the
> libraries can be inserted, tested and stabilized in that version and
> rarely need to be updated.
>
> I think it would be great to have these libraries integrated into Wt as
> a pattern, otherwise Wt will always be somewhat limited and dependent.
>
> If the idea is valid I can help, because I've done all these
> integrations are all working perfectly.
>
> Tks,
> John
>
>
>
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