Entice Designer 0.8.2 release

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Sun Apr 22 17:40:41 PDT 2007


Bill Baxter wrote:
> freeagle wrote:
>> Charlie wrote:
>>> DFL and Entice are really under-appreciated IMO , an awesome piece of 
>>> work.
>>
>> I think this is because the project is hosted at www.dprogramming.com. 
>> I'm not saying there's anything bad about it, but I think that first, 
>> and probably the last, stop for any beginning D programmer is 
>> www.dsource.org. That's why projects at dprogramming don't receive 
>> much attention.
> 
> It looks like a very nice project, but I think the fact that it's 
> Windows-only is the reason for lack of widespread adoption.  Heck I'm a 
> Windows-only user but I won't touch Windows-only libraries.  I value my 
> own freedom to switch platforms at will too much, especially these days 
> with Vista breathing uncomfortably down my neck.   I also value the 
> ability to share with friends who don't use Windows.  So I never really 
> gave DFL a second look.
> 
> --bb

Wait, is DFL closed source?  I couldn't find the source anywhere.  That 
might be another reason for lack of popularity.

--bb



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