
wxWidgets Mailing Lists
As well as the mailing lists, we also have a Message Board,
for those who prefer an alternative method of discussion.
See also this nice searchable version of wx-users and wx-dev: GMANE wx-users archive,
GMANE wx-dev archive.
Please make sure that you have read the Mailing list
HOWTO before posting!
wx-users |
wx-dev |
wx-discuss |
wx-announce |
wx-translators |
wx-cvs-updates |
wx-cvs-diffs |
wx-testers |
wxwindows-os2pm |
Newsgroups |
Internet Relay Chat |
General notes |
Choosing the right list
You can use
comp.soft-sys.wxwindows.
The wx-users mailing list is now gatewayed to and from this newsgroup, so all
messages posted to the list appear on the newsgroup and vice versa.
You can chat with other wxWidgets users on
irc.freenode.net/#wxWidgets.
Here are some popular IRC clients you can use:
- BitchX is a console-based client for Windows and Linux.
- mIRC is a graphical client for X11 and Windows.
- xchat is another graphical client for X11 and Windows.
To visit the wxWidgets channel on the OPN IRC network, connect
to the OPN main server, irc.freenode.net, or a geographically closer one
listed here. This is usually
accomplished with the following command, or by accessing the appropriate
dialog:
/server irc.freenode.net
From there one may join the #wxWidgets channel with the following command:
/join #wxWidgets
Arnout Engelen has added a 'bot' that
can recognise certain commands on IRC when you /msg it, displaying
information extracted from the wxWidgets documentation. Here are the
commands currently supported:
01:38 <wxGuru> describe <classname> describes the wxWidgets class
01:38 <wxGuru> describe <class>::<method> describes the wxWidgets method
01:38 <wxGuru> type <class>::<method> display the first type for this
method (will check parents recursively)
01:38 <wxGuru> parents <class> display all parent classes for class
01:38 <wxGuru> <subject> display information on this subject,
if available
01:38 <wxGuru> addfact <subject> hasdescription <information>
01:38 <wxGuru> stores <information> regarding
<subject>
01:38 <wxGuru> removefact <subject> removes this factoid
01:38 <wxGuru> listfactoids lists all functions that have a
factoid
01:38 <wxGuru> wipecache wipe the cache (as this doen't happen
automatically yet)
01:38 <wxGuru> help display this help
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of how to unsubscribe.
Announcements will normally be posted to both wx-users and wx-announce so you
do not need to be subscribed to both.
Note that subscription is now automated.
Sometimes, messages to the lists aren't echoed back to the sender. However,
this doesn't seem to stop the message reaching everyone else.
Please, please save the subscription acknowledgement you get,
so you know how to unsubscribe without annoying hundreds of people by
sending a message to wx-users.
wx-users is the list for problems using wxWidgets; if something is almost
certainly a bug in wxWidgets, or it's a suggestion for a new feature, then
mailing wx-dev is usually more appropriate.
You should never post to the announce or the cvs-updates lists. Other lists
should be self explanatory, e.g. wx-translators is for the discussion of the
translation issues and so forth.
wx-testing list is a very low level list which is only used to send the
reports about testing wxWidgets before a new release.