is dwt alive?

torhu no at spam.invalid
Mon Jun 21 16:40:41 PDT 2010


On 2010-06-21 22:46, torhu wrote:
>> On 21.06.2010 10:57, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> I've got a small example running (Display, Shell and Combo) in D2. There
>> are some things that need to be decided, like what the String alias
>> should be. Would be nice if could be a Phobos string, ie.
>> immutable(char)[]. That seems to work so far, and is a better match for
>> the Java string semantics that DWT have inherited.
>>
>> DMD 2's stricter conversion rules have actually caught some bugs in DWT.
>> In some places, a wchar is implicitly converted to a char, which is not
>> allowed in D 2.
>>
>> It would be great if DMD 1.x would accept the __gshared keyword, though.
>> It sucks to have to use string mixins or static this to work around that.
>
> I guess we have to look at all these D2 things. I haven't done any dwt
> development lately, haven't had time, which I don't like.

I'm considering creating at least a a temporary fork of DWT 2 on 
bitbucket.org.  Then I can just check in some stuff and see how it turns 
out.  It's possible that I'll have time to do some work on it this 
summer, but that might change quickly...


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