X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/wxWidgets.git/blobdiff_plain/0e601bf087b54ee4f216e538dd2a767ddc937d77..f363cee882672e147340240cf0bb194a68e37833:/docs/readme.txt diff --git a/docs/readme.txt b/docs/readme.txt index 3187c92b47..dc010aca34 100644 --- a/docs/readme.txt +++ b/docs/readme.txt @@ -1,26 +1,35 @@ - wxWidgets 2.9.1 Release Notes + wxWidgets 3.0.0 Release Notes ============================= -Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a cross-platform C++ -framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native -controls where possible. +Welcome to the latest release of wxWidgets, a free cross-platform C++ +framework for writing advanced GUI applications using native controls. + In addition to common and advanced GUI facilities such as frames, scrolling windows, toolbars, tree controls, icons, device contexts, printing, splitter windows and so on, there are wrappers for common -file operations, and facilities for writing TCP/IP applications, -thread handling, and more. +file operations, facilities for writing network applications, +thread handling, and so on. You can learn more about wxWidgets at + + http://www.wxwidgets.org/ + + +wxWidgets sources are available for download from + + https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.0/ + +or + + ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/3.0.0/ + +Please see the "Files" section below for the description of various +files available at these locations. + A detailed reference manual including in-depth overviews for various topics is supplied in various formats and can be accessed online at -http://docs.wxwidgets.org/ - -Note about naming: while 2.9.1 is called a "development" release, -this only means that API is not guaranteed to remain unchanged in -the subsequent 2.9.x releases, unlike in the stable 2.8.x branch. We -believe the current version is stable and suitable for use in -production environment. + http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/ @@ -31,18 +40,22 @@ This release contains several years worth of improvements compared to 2.8 version. Notably, Unicode support has been completely overhauled and made much easier to use. Debugging support, including when using a release build of the library, was much improved making -it less likely that you use the library incorrectly. Many new GUI -and base classes have been added or improved. +it less likely that you use the library incorrectly. Dynamic event +handling was made much more comfortable. Many new GUI and base classes +have been added or improved and all ports, and especially wxOSX/Cocoa +and wxGTK3, were enhanced. + +Compared to the previous 2.9 development releases the most important +change is that this release is part of the new 3.0 stable series, +guarantying backwards API and ABI compatibility with the next 3.0.x +releases. Please see the file docs/changes.txt for more details and make sure to read the section "Incompatible changes since 2.8" if you upgrade from a previous wxWidgets release. This release introduces many important changes and we are looking -forward to your feedback about them. In particular please let us -know about any regressions compared to the previous versions (see -the section "Bug reporting" below) so that we could fix them before -3.0 release. +forward to your feedback about them! Platforms supported @@ -51,14 +64,15 @@ Platforms supported wxWidgets currently supports the following primary platforms: - Windows 95/98/ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7 -- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.4 or newer) -- Mac OS X (10.4 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa +- Most Unix variants using the GTK+ toolkit (version 2.6 or newer) +- Mac OS X (10.5 or newer) using either Carbon or Cocoa There is some support for the following platforms: - Most Unix variants with X11 - Most Unix variants with Motif/Lesstif - Most Unix variants with GTK+ 1.2 +- Most Unix variants with GTK+ 3 (still in development) - OS/2 - Windows CE (Pocket PC) @@ -71,8 +85,24 @@ date status. Files ----- -The distribution is available in archive formats appropriate to the -target system. See the download pages for details. +wxWidgets is distributed in source form in several archive formats. +ZIP and 7z archives are for Microsoft Windows users and contain the +files with DOS/Windows line endings while the compressed tar archives +for Unix systems users (including OS X) and contain the files with +Unix line endings. Please notice that some Windows tools still don't +accept files with Unix line endings and that compiling sources with +DOS line endings under Unix will fail, so please choose the correct +file for your system. + +In addition to the sources, documentation in HTML, CHM and HTB +(wxWidgets help viewer) formats is provided as well as an installer +for Microsoft Windows. Notice that you will still need to compile +wxWidgets even when using the installer. + +Experimentally, we also supply binaries of wxMSW libraries built +with several versions of Microsoft Visual C++ compiler for this +release. They are available in the "binaries" subdirectory, see +the description of the files in the README file there. Installation @@ -94,6 +124,7 @@ For licensing information, please see the files: docs/licendoc.txt docs/gpl.txt docs/lgpl.txt + docs/xserver.txt Although this may seem complex, it is there to allow authors of proprietary/commercial applications to use wxWidgets in addition @@ -133,7 +164,7 @@ Documentation ------------- wxWidgets documentation is available online at -http://docs.wxwidgets.org/2.9.1/ and can also be downloaded in HTML +http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.0.0/ and can also be downloaded in HTML format. To generate documentation in other formats (PDF, CHM, ...) please use the scripts in docs/doxygen directory. @@ -160,11 +191,11 @@ Further information The wxWidgets Web site is located at: - http://www.wxwidgets.org + http://www.wxwidgets.org/ The main wxWidgets ftp site is at: - ftp://biolpc22.york.ac.uk/pub + ftp://ftp.wxwidgets.org/pub/ A wxWidgets CD-ROM with the latest distribution plus an HTML front-end and hundreds of MB of compilers, utilities and other @@ -173,5 +204,4 @@ web site. Have fun! -The wxWidgets Team, July 2010 - +The wxWidgets Team, July 2013