Current state of DWT

[mori]

On 19/1/21 2:34 am, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2021-01-18 01:11, mori wrote:
> 
>> Given this, would it be correct to assume that you're not accepting 
>> pull requests that would update DWT?  Only asking because I'd be 
>> willing to help update the GNU/Linux side.
> 
> No, I will definitely accept pull requests. It's mostly that I don't 
> have much time available and I think it's too tiresome to manually 
> update. I've started a project to automatically translate Java code to D 
> code [1] to be able to automatically update DWT. But again, due to time 
> constraints I've not been able to work on that project for a while.
Initially I'll try converting the manually so I can understand the 
internals a little (also don't know any Scala...).  The benefit of 
completing JPort is apparent though, so perhaps in the future.

> Although, I'm not sure how to best handle this if only Linux is going to 
> be updated.

Understandable.  However, this begs the question, is it worth it?

As mentioned, I'm happy to work on the Gtk side, but there isn't much 
merit in a "cross-platform" Toolkit which only supports one platform.

I do have an old Macbook Air (currently on 10.15 can be updated though), 
however, I'm a little uncertain on the current status of `extern 
(Objective-C)` (e.g. could a full binding for Cocoa be done?).  If it is 
possible, then I may be able to tinker away at that once the Gtk version 
is a bit more updated.

Anyway, I might still send some pull requests for Gtk, but what version 
of SWT should be aimed for?