Whither DWT?

Kyle Furlong kylefurlong at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 11:29:59 PDT 2006


John Reimer wrote:
> Anders F Björklund wrote:
> <snip>
> 
>> I think there was Shawn working on DWT/Windows, JJR working on DWT/GTK
>> (Linux) and Carlos working on DWT/Carbon (Mac OS X) in the beginning...
>>
>> But I think the start of this thread was because the DWT/Win development
>> is not making progress and I think the other platforms are stopped too ?
>>
>> At least that's how the DWT forum posting sounds:
>> http://www.dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1169
>>
> 
> It's accurate to say that I've done little with the DWT linux port. 
> There's been a lot of debate this way and that, and I've just lost the 
> will to progress on it alone.
> 
> If the community can come up with a decision on this, where more people 
> are willing to support and contribute to a GUI project, whatever it may 
> be, I will be very willing to lend a hand to the best of my ability.
> 
> That said, I've been guilty of helping out more with DUIT than with DWT, 
> probably mostly because Ant's been so active with it and a couple others 
> were lending him a hand.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>
>> I will await what the community comes up with for a new official project
>> and/or restart of the DWT project, and just continue with wxD meanwhile.
>>
>> GDC and wxD are the ones closest matching to what *I* want out of D, but
>> for others then the official two: DMD and DWT, might be a better match ?
>>
>> --anders
> 
> 
> I'm interested to see where people want to go as well. Meanwhile, 
> lightweight projects like Harmonia, that have active development and 
> interest, probably wouldn't be exceedinly hard to port to different 
> platfroms.
> 
> Interestingly, despite having so many people say they are interested in 
> DWT,  ports of the GUI Framework have garnered very little support.
> 
> -JJR

Who is interested in DWT? I know I am not one.



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