is dwt alive?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2010-07-13 00.01, Jeremy Powers wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM, torhu<no at spam.invalid>  wrote:
>> On 11.07.2010 20:30, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2010-07-11 19.09, torhu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   On 22.06.2010 14:49, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   On 2010-06-22 01:40, torhu wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>   I've set up my own project on Bitbucket. I've made enough changes to
>>>>   build my DWT app on Windows, and it's works like a charm. A lot of the
>>>>   Phobos code was already there, and I've added what was needed for my
>>>>   use. Since DWT enforces that all GUI code is run in the same thread
>>>>   (usually the main thread), I didn't need to add shared and __gshared
>>>>   that many places.
>>>>
>>>>   I had to add a lot of casts because D2 compilers are stricter about
>>>>   narrowing conversions. In some places Java's char type was kept as char,
>>>>   and not changed into wchar. I've changed the ones I came across to
>>>>   wchar, to avoid truncating code points that are outside of ASCII. Some
>>>>   conversions between char[] and wchar had to be added.
>>>>
>>>>   The String alias is D2 string, which works just fine.
>>>>
>>>>   http://bitbucket.org/torhus/dwt2
>>>
>>> So this is working with D2? If that's the case then it's great news.
>>> I've also found two other guys who want to work on DWT2 so this is
>>> starting to look pretty promising. Are your fork windows only? Have you
>>> looked anything on the linux port? I'll try to have a look at your
>>> branch and see if I can merge it with the main branch.
>>>
>>> I'm also thinking that we may need to organize our self a bit so we
>>> don't work on the same things.
>>
>> I've only looked at the Windows version, so if anyone else wants to work on
>> the other platforms, feel free.
>>
>> At the moment my fork won't compile as D1 code, but that's easy to fix.  I
>> didn't take a very systematic approach to the porting, since I didn't know
>> how much work it would take or how it would work out.  You are welcome to
>> review my changes and make suggestions.
>>
>> There were some methods that were synchronized in a couple of the java.*
>> modules.  I removed synchronized from their declaration, since D2 doesn't
>> accept this when the methods override superclass or interface methods that
>> are not synchronized.  I can't recall the details, but I think it looked
>> like synchronized implies shared, meaning it changes the type of the method.
>>   They are not synchronized in the Java version of the code, so I don't know
>> why they were in the D code.
>>
>
> Being one of the guys Jacob mentioned, wanted to chime in and second
> his thoughts - this is cool, we need to coordinate, etc.  I haven't
> had much time to work on this yet, but it looks like most of my
> changes parallel yours.  I started by getting (most) things to work
> with D1/Tango first, and got most of the snippets working on
> Windows... was waiting to make sure I didn't break anything for the
> Linux build before saying anything.
>
> Encountered the same thing with synchronized you did, but my solution
> was simply to move to a synchronized block surrounding the method
> body.  Didn't examine why things were synchronized, but according to
> what I've read D will treat a "synchronized { foo }" block like a
> block on the object, which is the same as the synchronized tag on a
> method in Java.  Didn't check the original Java code though...
>
> What are your thoughts on how we should coordinate efforts?  I'm
> mostly interested in doing D2/Phobos work, but have a setup where I
> can (relatively) easily switch between to make sure things work w/
> Tango and D2.
>
> Jeremy

I think what's most important is that we don't work on the same code, we 
don't want ones work to render any other work unusable. I'll probably 
focus on finishing the Mac port in the dwt-mac repository, merge changes 
to the repository and coordinate things. Then I'll add the Mac port to 
the DWT2 repository. I'll probably use D1 and Tango for most of the time.

-- 
Jacob Carlborg