Tweaks to the announcements, including adding some

kudos


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docs/publicity/announce.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-Announcing wxWindows 2.3.3, September 9th, 2002
+Announcing wxWindows 2.3.3: a cross-platform GUI toolkit
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Announcing the release of a development snapshot of the mature
-cross-platform C++ application framework, wxWindows.
+September 15th, 2002 -- the wxWindows team is pleased to
+announce the release of a development snapshot of the mature
+cross-platform C++ application framework.
 
 The following platforms are supported:
 
@@ -23,11 +24,10 @@ This is likely to be the last development snapshot in the
 
 *** About wxWindows
 
-wxWindows is probably the most powerful and comprehensive
-open-source, multi-platform C++ GUI framework available, which
-can be used to build commercial and free software. It's used by many
-organisations all over the world, including the company that
-invented the GUI.
+wxWindows is a comprehensive open-source, multi-platform C++
+GUI framework, that can be used to build commercial and free
+software. It's used by many organisations all over the world,
+including the company that invented the GUI.
 
 For most ports, wxWindows adopts the native look and feel of
 each platform since it uses the native widget sets. There is also
@@ -66,3 +66,82 @@ Have fun!
 
 Julian Smart and the wxWindows team
 
+=====
+
+A small selection of the comments from the Feedback page:
+
+"wxWindows 2.xx has been an absolute dream; putting together a
+nice interface has been quite easy, and I'm especially pleased
+that I can do most of our development on *nix with confidence
+that only minor issues will have to get cleaned up when we build
+on Windows." 
+
+"I use wxWindows as a GUI Toolkit for Python. Its stability,
+flexibility and speed are the base of industrial strength
+cross-platform GUI application design with interpreted languages
+like Python. Porting is child's play. Thanks for this great
+piece of software!" 
+
+"Excellent, stable and intuitive API. Very straightforward to
+learn and easy to port Java, X11 and Win32 code to." 
+
+"Thanks heaps for the best piece of software I've ever come
+across (wxWindows)." 
+
+"I chose wxWindows for a very much Windows-only application
+because of the simplicity of the API compared to MFC and Win32
+GDI programming. Aside from some minor mistakes in the manual
+which confused me for a while, wxWin has been really easy to use
+and increased my productivity immensely compared to using
+another framework." 
+
+"wxWindows is a great product. One of its best features, IMHO,
+are all the language bindings. It's very easy to prototype your
+app in wxPython, then convert to a C/C++ app later." 
+
+"Porting to wxWindows is easy - I recently ported an MFC project
+at work to wxGTK on Solaris, and changing all the MFC calls to
+wxWindows calls only took a couple of hours for a 2 man-month
+project... I've never had an easier porting experience.
+wxWindows was intentially built to work like MFC to make it easy
+to port, and they most certainly succeeded, with the notable
+exception of OLE support. I ported a several man month project
+in a day or two, and none of it was hard or confusing, it just
+amounted to looking up the equivalent functions in the help. I
+could do the conversion much faster now because I wouldn't have
+to keep glancing at the web page." 
+
+"I'd like to take the opportunity and say a big thank you to all
+the wxWin developers and contributors. wxWindows is the best
+piece of software I have been using so far, and I can't believe
+that I haven't discovered it earlier. I never thought that
+cross-platform development could be so easy and simply cool.
+Great stuff :)" 
+
+"Just wanted to commend you on wxWindows. As I'm reading the
+code samples (the checklistbox right now), I'm realizing that
+this is so intuitive and so Java-like in some parts of it,
+especially with the way the layout works... Very good work and
+thank you." 
+
+"I have used wxWindows in the past very successfully on multiple
+projects, and think it's the bee's knees. Thanks for everything!" 
+
+"Well, I'm using wxWindows since 2 days and I'm already in love
+with it :) The sizers saved me from writing a complete layout
+solution myself. Great work! You guys rock!" 
+
+"wxWindows is jaw dropping amazing. Community support from the
+mailing list is extraordinary. Are you sure this is free?" 
+
+"I love wxWindows. I can program 10 times faster than with MFC,
+and almost everything works the first time. And unlike MFC,
+there are (useful) examples and documentation. Thanks to you
+guys who did all the work to develop this framework. Big kudos." 
+
+"ImageLinks now uses the Open Source version of wxWindows for
+all its current GUI development. Doing this ensures that
+everything interfaces cleanly and also makes it easier in the
+long run to add other GUIs along the way because ImageLinks has
+access to all the source code."
+