Install DWT2 using DMD and Tango

[Andrew Wiley]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jesse Phillips
<jessekphillips+D at gmail.com>wrote:

> Andrew Wiley Wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Fabian <contact-fab at freenet.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > > I'm trying to install DWT2 to create GUI applications with D.
> > > I have downloaded DWT2 with TortoiseHg already and I've installed Ruby
> and
> > > Rake. But when I try to build the packages I get the following error
> > > message:
> > >
> > > http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/62/dwt2error.png/
> > >
> > > Is there anybody who can help me?
> > > I believe it's possible to use DWT2 and Tango - isn't it?
> > >
> >
> > It's called DWT2 because it's a port of the existing DWT code to D2.
> Tango
> > is a replacement standard library for D1, so no, they can't really be
> used
> > together.
> > I'm not sure about the state of DWT1, but it should be fairly stable,
> even
> > if it hasn't been worked on recently.
>
> No, DWT2 is a strategy change to how DWT is structured. The change was to
> use the structure of SWT instead of renaming and moving everything. This was
> to make porting easier. It also combined dwt-linux, dwt-windows dwt-mac
> under one repository.
>

Ah, apparently I am a font of misinformation. Now that I think about it, I
do remember a discussion a while back about issues making D2 code remain
compatible with D1 where DWT2 was brought up. Or at least I think I do.
Sorry for the noise.
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