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Audacity: A Digital Audio Editor
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WidgetMigration.dox2
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James Crook
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\page WidgetMigration Migration of Generic Code To wxWidgets
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\section MigrationIntro Introduction
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Some of the code in Audacity may in time migrate into the wxWidgets
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library. It is both in Audacity's interests and wxWidgets interests
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that this kind of code migration be possible.
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\section MigrationHow How This is Being Done
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To facilitate this some generic parts of Audacity are being written with
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the wxWindows license, rather than with the GPL. There are many ways this
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can be achieved and stay within both the spirit and letter of the GPL.
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The most clearcut way is to actually compile the migratable code in a
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separate intermediate wxWindows licensed library that is then linked with
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wxWidgets and the GPL'ed Audacity code. Another approach is as each
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source file is created, release it under the wxWindows license. It is
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automatically then also a GPL compatible file, and it is a GPL licensed
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version that is linked in to the exe. The wxWindows licensed version
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is still available from our SVN. This is what we are doing. We require
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that developers checking in changes into Audacity SVN for these files
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authorise their changes to be used under the wxWindows license. Of
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course anyone is free to use these dual-licensed files under the GPL
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instead. They may also choose to make their changes GPL only, but in that
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case they may not check their changes back into our SVN.
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\section MigrationItems Code Slated For Migration
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Some examples of code that is slated for wxWidgets migration:
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- Theme code, see \ref Themability
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- ShuttleGui code, see \ref ShuttleSystem
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The migration process is expected to be slow. It may be several years
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before we formally offer some of the code to wxWidgets. We want to
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contribute mature well tested code, complete with doucmentation demo
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sample code etc. We want the code for migration to be of a maturity
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suitable for inclusion in the default wxWidgets distribution from the
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start, in the same way that optional sub libraries like the PNG library
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are included, rather than as a contrib.
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