is dwt alive?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-06-22 01:40, torhu wrote:
> 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...

You can see if Frank can give you access to the repository, try sending 
him an e-mail. I know we can use some more people on this project. I 
don't even know if I have commit access to the DWT2 repository, what I 
do know is that I have at least access to the dwt-mac repository.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg