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wxWidgets project has several active mailing lists described in details below. Notice that you need to subscribe to them before posting. To do this, you should either send an empty message to the subscription address given below or do it from Google Groups web interface. Notice that the latter option requires a Google account while the former does not.

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-commits | wx-commits-diffs | wx-testers | wx-os2pm | Newsgroups | Internet Relay Chat | General notes | Choosing the right list

Users' list

For users of wxWidgets

To send a message
List archive Archive | GMANE wx-users archive
To (un)subscribe wx-users group

Developers' list

A higher-bandwidth list for people involved in the development of wxWidgets. This is for technical discussion only.

To send a message
List archive Archive | GMANE wx-dev archive
To (un)subscribe wx-dev group

Discussion list

A list for people to discuss the wxWidgets project, its future, etc. This is not for technical discussions.

To send a message
List archive Archive
To (un)subscribe wx-discuss group

Announcement list

A low-bandwidth list for announcing wxWidgets releases.

To send a message
List archive Archive
To (un)subscribe wx-announce group

Translators' list

For people involved in writing translations of the wxWidgets message catalogues.

To send a message
List archive Archive
To (un)subscribe wx-translators group

Source repository updates list

Get notification of changes to the subversion source code repository.

To send a message N/A
List archive N/A
To (un)subscribe wx-commits group

Source repository updates list with diffs

Get notification of changes to the Subversion repository, with diff indicating what's changed.

To send a message N/A
List archive N/A
To (un)subscribe wx-commits-diffs group

Testers list

Discussion list for wxWidgets testers.

To send a message
List archive Archive
To (un)subscribe wx-testers group

OS/2 PM port list

For people involved in the port to OS/2.

To send a message
List archive Archive
To (un)subscribe wx-os2pm group


Newsgroups

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.

Unfortunately the mailing list/newsgroup gateway doesn't work any longer and few people still use the newsgroup. If you can help us with reestablishing a functional gateway between USENET and the mailing list, it would be very welcome!


Internet Relay Chat (IRC)

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


General notes

Please don't send (un)subscription requests to wx-users, wx-announce or wx-dev! You would be amazed at how many people do this. It really annoys everyone on the lists so please make sure you make a note 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.


Choosing the right list

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 commits 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.

 
 

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