What library functionality would you most like to see in D?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-08-01 21:03, Jim Hewes wrote:
> I didn't mean to criticize the D compiler installation, which seems to
> install pretty well on Windows. That is, after you install it you're
> ready to go without additional setup or needing to install other things.
> I was referring more to the peripheral projects and also just to open
> source in general.

Ok.

> If DWT is the standard GUI in the same sense that MFC is for Microsoft
> C++, then I thought it would be nice if it were included in the
> installer for the D compiler. It could be an optional feature during
> installation. But if you do choose to install it, then right after
> installation you should immediately be able to build included sample GUI
> code projects.

There is no standard GUI for D. Well, actually, as I think it says on 
the wiki is that DWT is the standard GUI library, but that's referring 
to an older, windows only, version of DWT.

>> DWT works with D2 (Phobos) as well. It's statically linked so the
>> hello world application gets quite large. But that's because it pulls
>> in a lot of the library, meaning even if you start using other parts
>> of the library it won't increase the size of the executable at the
>> same rate.
>
>
> Yeah, the main GUI library page on the wiki says that it works with
> Phobos, but the Windows installation guide says to download Tango. So I
> wasn't sure it was really updated to support Phobos. Thanks, I will try
> to check it out next weekend.
>
> Jim

I guess the DWT project page could use some updating.

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/Jacob Carlborg